Quotes by Ned Sublette

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.

Culture

Lasts

Years

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Community

Peaceful

Rights

Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as well as the danza, danzón, and ultimately the danzón mambo and its offspring the cha-cha-chá.

Black

Creating

Style

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Band

Roles

Way

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

Breeding

Cottages

Slave

In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, ‘Rareza de Melitn,’ with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking of it under the name ‘Chanchullo’; and in 1962 Tito Puente reworked that into ‘Oye como va,’ still with that same groove. In this form, audibly the same, it powered Carlos Santana’s multiplatinum 1970 cover version, close to three decades after Cachao first played it.

Firsts

Memorable

Names

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, …the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Long

Negative

Southern

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

Jail

Rip

Sound

Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can’t disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

Character

Essentials

Migration

New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

Keys

New Orleans

Practice

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Band

Black

Breeding

Character

Characteristics

Community

Cottages

Creating

Culture

Development

Essentials

Fantasy

Firsts

Including

Jail

Keys

Lasts

Long

Memorable

Migration

Mockery

Names

Negative

New Orleans

Ownership

Peaceful

Politician

Practice

Principles

Rights

Rip

Roles

Sex

Slave

Song

Sound

Southern

Spain

Spirit

Style

Thinking

Wall

Way

Years

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Quotes by Ned Sublette

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.

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as well as the danza, danzón, and ultimately the danzón mambo and its offspring the cha-cha-chá.

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

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.

Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can’t disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

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