"A laborer might last ten years or so……" — Ned Sublette
"A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt."
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Ned Sublette
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16 Quotes by Ned Sublette
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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…
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The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga…
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One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase,…
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The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society…
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Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
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In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded…
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Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...
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The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'.…
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That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
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On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or…
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A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble…
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Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it…
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
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I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival…
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger…
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Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare;…
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From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it…
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea…
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Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering…
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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed,…
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Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
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