Porque dentro de lo que le damos, estamos hablando de esa parte de la historia donde nuestros ancestros fueron esclavizados." She added: "Esto involucra mucho dolor, muchas muertes. She is Rafael Cepeda's great-granddaughter and has carried on the torch through performance and education. "Es una responsabilidad muy grande," Tata said.
Modesto Cepeda was honored at the 2017 NEA National Heritage Fellowships concert in Washington, D.C.
Tata leads Escuela de Bomba y Plena Doña Caridad Brenes de Cepeda in Puerto Rico, and Barbara Liz is director of Escuela de Bomba y Plena Tata Cepeda in Florida. Both lead their own nonprofit dance studios. Today, their legacy continues through their descendants, Margarita "Tata" Cepeda and Barbara Liz. Their son Modesto Cepeda won the same award in 2017. In 1983, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a grant to Don Rafael Cepeda and wife Doña Caridad Brenes Caballero for their cultural contributions. Doña Caridad Brenes Caballero and Don Rafael Cepeda led the movement on the island, passing the torch to their children in their older age, in educational performances around the world. Though it's a long-standing tradition that likely began in the mid-to-late 1800s, the Cepeda family popularized it in the 1930s, according to a documentary called "Bomba: Dancing the Drum." The family were known for establishing the first school, Grupo Folkorico La Familia Cepeda, where they passed on the traditions their ancestors had taught them with the community. The act is almost spiritual, akin to hymns and gospel songs sung by enslaved communities in the United States.
The New York Times once described bomba as the "enduring rhythm of Puerto Rico." More than 500-plus years old, this style of drum, dance and song permeates Puerto Rican culture, which is a mixture of African, native Taino and Spanish influences. "Seeing how our brothers and sisters are being treated, not being well taken care of … we feel the need to stand up," said Yaira Velez, founder of a Kansas City-based Puerto Rican dance group called Cuerpo de Baile Areito Kansas City.Īs a sign of solidarity with the local Black community, Areito members posted a video in which they perform bomba "to continue the much needed conversation and awareness of the BLACK LIVES," the group wrote on Facebook. These traditional art forms have appeared at Black Lives Matter protests organized in response to the deaths of Black Americans - George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade - at the hands of law enforcement, or due to their alleged maltreatment and neglect. In June, improvisational dance and drumming - as well as chants, protest signs and raised fists - have been harnessed to push for change. It's a dialogue of rhythm, song and movement built on the resistance and survival of enslaved people in Puerto Rico. Bomba is more than a genre of folk music.
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