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"El Gran Combo is fun and funny," said Juan Flores, a sociologist and author of "From Bomba to Hip-Hop" ( Columbia University Press, 2000).

But Ondatrópica also looked beyond cumbia: to salsa, to Puerto Rican bomba, to Jamaican ska and dance hall, to Nigerian Afrobeat, to Middle Eastern modes (in a tune by Mr. Holland called "Libya") and, as a novelty, to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," which was turned into a cumbia with its riff played on accordion and Spanish lyrics that announced, "The rum is finished" — that is, people are drunk.

However, there is an extraordinary amount of traditional and nontraditional music being made in Puerto Rico, from the old Afro-Caribbean bombas to the ragaton (Puerto Rican reggae) sounds of the San Juan projects.

Bomba seems to be breaking.

Bomba adapted to changing political and social conditions yet again with the emancipation of slaves in Puerto Rico in 1873, when it was used by former slaves and others as part of their search for cultural identity.

To explain how the Quilombolas of Bombas respond to and shape social-ecological changes, this article explores historical and contemporary social, ecological, economic, and political processes that have affected their livelihoods and the Atlantic Forest.

It was this sobering fact that inspired the Bombas founders to start their company in 2013.

Although tourism was developed in the nearby settlement of Serra, it was not in Bombas due to the inaccessibility of this community (Silveira 2007).

The origins of bomba date back to 16th-century Africa, according to Halbert Barton, assistant professor of anthropology at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

In choosing the songs, it is marvelous to see that when we interpret music of Puerto Rico, and a bomba dance seems to be so much ours, because the rhythm, well, it's not the same, but it's similar.

We were going to be Brazilian at home, gyrating around our sitting room to Bomba, sipping a caipirinha in the square of concrete that passes for our back garden.