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The rumberas film (in Spanish Cine de rumberas) was a film genre that flourished in the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Its main stars were the actresses and dancers known as "rumberas" (Afro-Caribbean rhythm dancers). The genre is a hybrid that is rooted in various film genres and today, thanks to its unique characteristics, they are considered cult films. The rumberas film and the luchador films are two of the contributions of the Mexican cinema to international cinema. ==Roots== The rumberas film finds his roots in various film genres. The film noir so popular in the Hollywood Cinema and in other film industries in the 1930s and 1940s, can be considered as its cornerstone in that it is based on criminal matters. Another influence is the musical film, particularly the Hollywood musicals of Busby Berkeley in the 1940s, which were famous for theirs colorful and extravagant musical numbers endowed with a profound aesthetic expression, and the Hollywood B films of the 1930s, famous, among other things, for their exaltation of the exotic and extravagant environments. Finally, the Rumberas film was also influenced by the "social film" or Mexican urban melodramatic film, whose main architect was the director Alejandro Galindo. This mix of elements and genres can be considered the basis of the Rumberas film.〔(''Noticieros Televisa Final de Partida: Ninón Sevilla & The Rumberas film )〕 ==Origins== The "rumberas" were the dancers and actresses who danced to Afro-Caribbean rhythms, which flourished in the Mexican Cinema in its Golden Age in the 1940s and 1950s. The term "rumbera" comes from the so-called rumba craze of the 1930s, which had its roots in the ballroom adaptations of Cuban music that became fashionable in Mexico and throughout Latin America between the late nineteenth century and the 1940s. The first rumberas danced to this music, which was often based on son cubano, conga and, naturally, Cuban rumba. Eventually, there were new Cuban rhythms such as the mambo and the cha-cha-cha which quickly displaced the ballroom rumba as the most successful Latin music genre of North America. Although the dancers eventually adopted these new styles, and later used these their dances in their films, the term "rumbera" continued to be used to refer to them. The rumberas first came to the theater in the 19th century when they came to accompany many comedians and buffs of Cuban origin who settled in Mexico City, at the time of the vaudeville and the burlesque. From the early 20th century until the 1920s, in the age of the great Mexican Vedettes of the frivolous theater (as María Conesa or Lupe Vélez) Rumba dancers began to emerge. Lolita Téllez Wood is popularly considered the first dancer to popularize West Indian rhythms. During the course of the next decade, many rumberas and vedettes from Cuba came to Mexico.〔SOMOS (1999), p. 6-8〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rumberas film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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