Negro Empire
PROGRAMME by a Cuban-style band, led by Edmund Ros, showed interestingly the extent to which the music of South America, as well as North, is dominated by negro rhythms. The Brazilian samba and the West Indian calypso-the last is, I think, a recent discovery, lively and amusing, without the Latin lusciousness of tunes in neighbouring lands-these one can understand, for the negro authorship is’ direct and avowed. But the more familiar rhumbas and congas all have as their basis the drum-beat rhythm that gave birth to jazz and its congeners. What the negroes of the southern lands do not seem to have developed is anything resembling the spirituals of the plantations and the Mississippi. Whether because of some difference between Catholicism ‘and evangelical puritanism, or for some other cause, the slave population of the Spanish and Portuguese countries has not achieved that re-statement of religion at its own level and on its own terms that the northern slaves brought to the level of a great art. But both dominate the music of the erstwhile mas-ters-the captive took the victor prisoner.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 8
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182Negro Empire New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 8
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