also me: the American “world music” vogue of the ‘80s-‘90s was the third of three successively expanding fads for subaltern music

also me: Jazz since the 1920s, from the US’s in-situ colonialized class, then Carribean (mambo, steel drum, Miami bass, dub reggae) from the 50s-80s

me: the unspoken but clear desire to claim electronic dance music for “queerness” seems like an internalizing of this pattern

also me: also this was in each case promoted by advanced parts of the subject populations as a way to upgrade from extractive to culture-producing or at least tourist zones

me: but what of the conga and the watusi, those American appropriations of decolonizing nations avant le lettre?