"Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat,……" — Ned Sublette
"Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip."
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16 Quotes by Ned Sublette
Ned Sublette has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the…
- The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga…
- One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase,…
- The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society…
- 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…
- 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…
- The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'.…
- 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…
- A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble…
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- I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat. — Desi Arnaz