{"id":79253,"date":"2021-05-03T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-rumba-kings-le-film\/"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T07:25:47","slug":"the-rumba-kings-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-rumba-kings-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rumba Kings: Film gets world premier at DOXA festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two years after PAM told you about The Rumba Kings <\/em>\u2013 dedicated to the golden age of Congolese rumba \u2013 the film is finally being released. The DOXA festival in Vancouver \u2013 held online this year \u2013 has selected the film and will screen it on 6th May.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Rumba Kings<\/em>, a documentary film by Alan Brain that traces the history of Congolese rumba and its contribution to world music, is finally being released. North American audiences will be the first to see it when it is broadcast online at the DOXA festival<\/a> in Vancouver. This will take place on 6th May \u2013 don\u2019t miss it! Without doubt the hour-and-a-half-long film is the one that all you music lovers have been waiting for.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is that? Well first, because it pays tribute and does justice to this original sound, born of the meeting between Congolese and Cuban rhythms after the slave trade had scattered the children of Africa all over the lands of America. Their sounds (cha-cha, montuno, bolero etc.) then returned to Africa, like a letter addressed to a mother back home. The film, by Peruvian director Alan Brain, who worked for the UN in Kinshasa for several years, traces the course of this history and takes us back to the crucial years preceding the Congo\u2019s accession to independence. It was in two crucial decades, between the 1940s and 1960s, that Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), as well as Brazzaville, gave birth to the music that would make the whole of Africa dance. The roots of rumba are illuminated with the help of archives that show the markets, the ngandas, and the dandies photographed by De Para, as well as the crowds at the crossroads listening to the radio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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