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Author: afbase

content/blog/2024-07-19-welcome.md

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-In the summer of 2023, a simple observation about drums in African American music set me on an unexpected journey. I found myself exploring the migration of drums in the Atlantic slave trade, trying to understand why these instruments seemed less central to African American music compared to other parts of the African diaspora across the Americas.
+In the summer of 2023, a simple observation about drums in African American music set me on an unexpected journey: I just didn't quite hear the drums in African American music like I do in Afro-Caribbean or Afro-Latino music. I found myself exploring the migration of drums in the Atlantic slave trade, trying to understand why the drums seemed less central to African American music compared to other parts of the African diaspora across the Americas.
 
 This curiosity led me down a path of historical inquiry into <a href="#" class="tooltip-wrapper" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="any of the set of rules based on the concept that enslaved persons were property, not persons.">slave codes</a> and their effect on music in the Americas. What I learned was intriguing but the experience was equally frustrating: information on slave codes was scattered and difficult to access. If I struggled to find this information, it must be challenging for others.