"The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves……" — Ned Sublette
"The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World."
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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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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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A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were…
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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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