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Roots.........

Bushmen rock painting in Zimbabwe. Showing a drum in the middle.
...unsure of dating of painting.

Photographed by Steve Evans.

http://www.flickr.com/people/babasteve/

More African roots...

A Picasa Web Album with paintings by African artists.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VteHE7U_0ZX1UpmmnZafMw

here's some more RUMBA art

and anothe one

Couple of paintings by Puerto Rican artist, O.J. Correa.

Enjoy...

Jorge Ginorio

The late "Monina" by Dennis Mario.

Saludos,

Jorge Ginorio

Paints by a french David Lavolée :

Anothers by David Lavolée, a tribute to Anga

Wow! What a great thread!!! I love this stuff!!

Just in case you're interested. What I usually do is save every picture, image that I like and then save on to a special images folder then I use the images for my desk top screen saver, I love it.
P.S. by the way I've just added a few more images, if you know what I mean

Not precisely rumba, but here is a photograph my great-grandfathers took in the village of Omatemba
around 1915 when they were Protestant missionaries in the Ovambo region in former German South West Africa (today Namibia):
EDIT: I do not know the name of the drum shown in the picture, but it looks like an Ashiko-like drum?

....A percussive image for the present time.

The IV Festival of the drum and African culture is conducted from 18 to Feb. 25 in several forums of Mexico City, with the participation of artists from Guinea, Brazil, Bolivia and Mexico

Some of the festival activities are craft and culinary samples of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, walkways of regional costumes, children's workshops, as the circle of body percussion for children with different abilities, storytelling, dance class open to African cinema , Conferences such as discrimination, inclusion and exclusion.
Involved nearly 8,000 dancers, musicians, storytellers and drummers from Mexico, Guinea, Brazil, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia and South Africa.

Album cover art from Haiti 1958
Unfortunately, whoever captured this image did it with a flash, which washes out the color on top of painting.

Bold colors, lots of movement.

The additional text on bottom says:
"the screaming end, direct from a smoking Haitian dance dive"

This is a photo of my hands holding a cigar with my Vintage LP Conga. I call it. The Good Life.

Enjoy!