also me: the American \u201cworld music\u201d vogue of the \u201880s-\u201890s was the third of three successively expanding fads for subaltern music
also me: Jazz since the 1920s, from the US\u2019s 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 \u201cqueerness\u201d 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?
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