Dance Music As a Diasporic Musical Innovation

Long read co-writen with Dr Mathys

Jointly with Mathys, I worked on a small essay on the European Black Diasporic experience within the discourse of the white washing of dance music. We discuss this topic in the context of the prevalence of Afro-pessimism and US exceptionalism in art discourse. It is a first attempt at a history of the white washing of dance music, which does not erase t…