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• Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of…
• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the…
• One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937…
• The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous…
• Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
• In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking…
• Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...
• A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by…
• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you…
• That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
• On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership…
• A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the…

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