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Take country music, for example, and all the black parents who were afraid of it, but the black kids who loved it. /s
The trend is fetishizing black culture; music is just a part of that.
or, you know, black culture has been very prolific and makes good art so it appeals to a lot of people. I think calling it fetishizing is a bit insulting to the counter itself; as if it doesn't have its own merit.
dominating the art scene had been historically true of a lot of minorities in various countries. I guess art is one thing you can't take away from people easily.
I think it is fetishizing when you systemically oppress black people but coopt their art.
that's appropriation, and black people themselves are fetishized, but I don't know if that's appropriate to say about the culture.
The black people are being farmed for cash by the executives and stockholders.
"The Black Youth" were motivated to buy a whole new identity to relate to country. They are taking back something from white people. Buy buying the things to make them look country.
Things that were lacking buyers from traditional demographics because they had always been country. Now those companies have more people to sell to. Same owners tho.
That's the key fetish. Money.
Yeah my point is that thinking of it as fetishizing black culture is a very narrow view of a much more universal human behavior, where people like whatever they like without bothering to filter it by who found out about it first, and business people maks a buck out of any and every trend no matter where it came from.
Two things can be true.
What you're saying just isn't true, though, or at least doesn't explain the sheer fascination of contemporary white americans with mimicking every aspect of black culture
People have enjoyed mimicking each other the human race began. Things that originate in one culture often have broad appeal [shrug]. I wouldn't call it "sheer fascination" but whatever.