You had a triangulation of dance-rap-reggae.
That was pretty much it. That was the basis of the coalition.
oi fuck off stavros with your bloody plinky plonk shite
dancehall is similarly insular
rap is similarly insular
But thats not multiculturalism, its a uniform aesthetic based on capitalist assimilation and regurgitation of local culture as commodity.
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Again I ask why is that - is Asian music just too alien to our white ears to be accepted?
Reggae, after all, was an evolution of rock.
I've a Greek friend at work who has played me some of his favourite Greek songs and I'm not even going to say it's awful it's just so foreign to my conception of good taste that I can't stand it.
2010's london:
multi cultural music- deep tech, bass house
mono cultureal music- uk drill
the multicultural music was shockingly retromanic while the monocultural was the most innovative uk music since grime
2010's us rap:
multi cultural- drake 'one dance', 'controlla'
mono cultural- mumble rap
multicultural unremarkable and as we all agree the monocultural migos are the most futurist music since jungle.
What you're asking is for a sphere of production to retain some sort of organic dynamic momentum without being commodified.
is it?
Ive thought similar things. There is some corporate investment but the criminality has without doubt 'protected' the music, ring fenced it