Unit 7
Grades 9-10
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Rhythms That Would Not Be Silenced: Samba, Bomba, and Cumbia
In 1789, colonial authorities in Saint-Domingue (soon to become Haiti) formally banned the drum. It is worth pausing on how remarkable that fact is: an entire colonial government dedicated legal resources to outlawing a musical instrument, because it correctly understood the…
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