The Rumba Archive

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Research Article| June 01 2023 The Rumba Archive Walton Muyumba Walton Muyumba Walton Muyumba is a writer and critic. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and the Oxford American, among other outlets. Muyumba is an associate professor of literature at Indiana University-Bloomington. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 23–31. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.23 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Walton Muyumba; The Rumba Archive. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 23–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.23 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search When my father, François Muyumba, died in 2006, I inherited both his collection of Congolese rumba music on vinyl and the printed/digital remains of his personal writing and scholarly works. His rumba music collection includes ten LPs and twenty-four 45s. From August 1962, when he left Kinshasa, through February 1967, my father lived and studied in the United States, first at the Seminary for Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, and then at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, where he completed his undergraduate studies. Upon his return to Congo, my father worked as the administrative secretary to the rector at the Free University of Congo at Kisangani. He remained in Congo for a thirty-one-month period, February 1967-August 1969, before he returned to the US in order to begin graduate studies at Portland State University. His rumba music collection includes ten LPs and twenty-four 45s. The release dates for... You do not currently have access to this content.