Rock Roots

Rock Roots: Africa and Cuba
- a synthesis between 2 traditions & 2 continents to form rock
- rock is the unique tribute to the power of integration
- upon closer inspection, rock appears to be a purely African addition
to the western musical institution
- Afro-Cuban + black music of Mississippi and Louisiana share common ancestry:
in the early 19th C. the Haitan revolution sent the islands plantation owners packing.
Many managed to escape with their African slaves , whose origins were primarily
from Yoruba + Fon, modern Nigeria, Congo and Guinea.…