Writer and musician Ned Sublette will be doing a reading from The Year Before the Flood, as well as performing some of the music he writes about in the book, at the Regulator Bookshop on 9th Street in Durham on February 10th at 7 p.m.

(Directions to Regulator Bookshop)

Sublette is a remarkable author, musician, and producer who has written about the links between history and music in Cuba and Louisiana. His reading/concert is part of a three-day visit to Duke February 9th-11th, during which he will also participate in a pre-concert conversation with Miguel Zenon organized by Duke Performances.

You can read a preview of his visit from a local fan here.

He has published three major books: Cuba and It’s Music, a sweeping and magisterial investigation of the African, Iberian, and Caribbean sources for Cuban music; The World that Made New Orleans, a history of the city that emphasizes the links between the Caribbean, notably Haiti, and North America, and most recently a memoir on the music and culture of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood.

To read about Ned’s arguments about the place of the Haitian Revolution in American popular music, click here.