BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS: - Elisabeth Blin

carrying slaves and goods from the ports of Angola, to those of Brazil and Portugal,
forming a trade route in the shape of a triangle, of which the peak was the Cape Verde
Islands, far-south of Lisbon. During one hundred fifty years, the main ports on the trading
route, Luanda in Angola, Salvador, Recife, Rio in Brazil, and Cape Verde and Lisbon,
formed “a connected system of musical melting pots. 60 ”
Figure 6. The Atlantic cultural triangle, also called the golden triangle or slave triangle. (Fryer, xi)
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