"The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about……" — Ned Sublette
"The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex."
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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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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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