Ned Sublette Quotes

United States, Composer
1951

Ned Sublette is an American composer, musician, record producer, musicologist, and author. Sublette studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain. He studied composition with Kenneth Gaburo at the University of California, San Diego. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico, moved to New York City in 1976, and has worked with John Cage, LaMonte Young, Glenn Branca, and Peter Gordon.

Also known as Musician, Record Producer, Author

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

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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.

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When a “founding father’s” remarks about “liberty” don’t seem to make sense, substitute the word “property” and they do.

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- Liberty
- Sense
- Property
That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.

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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.

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

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- Industry
- Slaves
- Cottage
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

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Slaves, whose legal status was comparable to that of livestock, were expected to provide a farm owner with marketable children.

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- Slaves
- Status
- Owner

When we speak of “branding” today, we should remember that it was at one time literal: with a hot iron pressed against human flesh.

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- Human
- Flesh
- Iron