African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
375 p., Contents: The sociohistorical setting / The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : the beginnings of Caribbean thought / The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the antislavery ideology / The growth of nationalist thought to 1900 / Conclusion
"The social ascendancy of the drum reflects equally the gradual upward mobility of Cuba's black people. It is impossible to day to imagine any kind of modern Cuban music that does not include the restrained, or wild, rolling of the drum, making the rhythm of romantic songs or revealing the exuberance of the son, rumba, and other dance rhythms. I shall attempt here to briefly sketch of the Afro-Cuban drum from colonial times to present...." (author)
