Gwendolyn Midlo Hall with Charles Henry Rowell

White settlers mated with black women as well. Thus there was a variety of social classes among the French because on one hand, there were there the deportees, who were at the bottom of the social latter, and then there were people who were-you can exaggerate the level of their nobility-but there were people who had some influence and they did get land concessions. [...] in a sense it was Afro-Cuban music, which inspired Senegalese music, and this has now become world music.