In Reply to: Re: For our resident musicologists: recently, I've been listening to Senegalese, posted by Dmitry on February 23, 2007 at 07:17:20:
here for centuries.
In listening to old black music, I've never heard that syncopation which is so prevalent in many African, Carribbean, and S. American countries.
Perhaps slave owners prohibited it here but the Brasilian ones allowed drumming?
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