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Afro-Cuban music was the conduit by which African American music was " re-Africanized ," through the adoption of two-celled figures like clave and Afro-Cuban instruments like the conga drum, bongos, maracas and claves.
According to John Storm Roberts, R & B became the vehicle for the return of Cuban elements into mass popular music.
Ahmet Etregun, producer for Atlantic Records, is reported to have said that " Afro-Cuban rhythms added color and excitement to the basic drive of R & B.
" As Ned Sublette points out though: " By the 1960s, with Cuba the object of a United States embargo that still remains in effect today, the island nation had been forgotten as a source of music.
By the time people began to talk about rock and roll as having a history, Cuban music had vanished from North American consciousness.

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