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

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.

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

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

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

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.

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