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Slaves in colonial Peru, prohibited from playing drums, turned crates into percussion instruments, thus creating the cajon, or box drum, Some Peruvian musical ensembles employ only one cajon; Peru Negro, the thirty-year-old Lima-based music-and-dance group that sparked the Afro-Peruvian revival of the seventies, uses several. The polyrhythmic arrangement was the brainchild of the group's founder, Ronald Campos, who died in 2001. Ronaldo's son Rony has taken over the reins, and this week he brings Peru Negro to New York for the first time. (Town Hall, Feb. 21; see Night Life.) 02/16/04
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