Ned Sublette Quotes
Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.
Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
