Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial JazzPopular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core involved a longing for earlier erasones that pre dated the technological discipline