Square -- now Beauregard Square -- and here, on Sunday nights, wild dances used to occur -- the "bamboula" and "calinda" -- and sinister spells were cast.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arts Come Marching In Again] Reference

It was then they danced the bamboula, incessantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower of the Chapdelaines] Reference

When the goombay -- a flour-barrel drum -- sounded, the town knew the bamboula had begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower of the Chapdelaines] Reference