On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own … - Ned Sublette

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Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and. . . it's like attempting for something.

Ned Sublette

On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.

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The basic success of the conga came from. . . that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

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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'. 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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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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