Recently I have kept reading about the voodoo history, then I inevitably think about the Mambo rhythms.
It is a general consensus that the mambo rhythms had inspired most of the Latin American Dances with its unique triple rhythm.
However, as a very archaic ritual dance, the mambo does not have only single and triple rhythm, it also has a double rhythm, which seems to be forgotten.
Maybe not quite.
It is true that we don't refer to the double as often as we refer to the single and triple, however do we really know about the single and the triple?
No.
The single is 234 and has become either slow 234 (Rumba) or fast 234 (salsa); the triple is 4&1 and has become the triple step in cha-cha-cha and Quick-a-Quick Quick-a-Quick in Jive. Still we don't refer them to the Mambo. Maybe they are also forgotten, since we only dance them without knowing their origin.
Sometimes I feel bizarre that I still am so eager to learn the origins of dances.
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