bamboula

“Square -- now Beauregard Square -- and here, on Sunday nights, wild dances used to occur -- the "bamboula" and "calinda" -- and sinister spells were cast.”

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'

“Just inside, Congo Square -- where two centuries ago enslaved Africans and free people of color spent Sundays dancing and drumming to the bamboula rhythm, seeding the pulse of New Orleans jazz -- had been effectively off limits.”

The Wall Street Journal: The Arts Come Marching In Again

“It was then they danced the bamboula, incessantly.”

The Flower of the Chapdelaines

“When the goombay -- a flour-barrel drum -- sounded, the town knew the bamboula had begun.”

The Flower of the Chapdelaines

“It was the eastern bamboula of the Harems, to which was added all the elastic joyance, all the gay brilliancy of the blood of France.”

Under Two Flags

“I prefer a bamboula whose music is the cannon, bon pere.”

Under Two Flags

“She thought of herself as she had danced that mad bacchic bamboula amid the crowd of shouting, stamping, drunken, half-infuriated soldiery; and for the moment she hated herself more even than she hated that patrician yonder.”

Under Two Flags

“Parbleu!" swore the vivandiere in her wrath, "you look on at a bamboula as if it were only a bear-cub dancing, and can only give one 'yes' and 'no,' as if one were a drummer-boy.”

Under Two Flags