{"id":2923,"date":"2010-01-26T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:53:29","slug":"making-the-world-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"Making the World Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect some dear readers out there, much as they like me, are getting sick of seeing my bristly face<\/a> when they load the page, so I figured I’d get something else up here at the top, though I don’t have time for a proper post right now. One thing about those beard shots — ok, 2 things — 1) some<\/a> people<\/a> like em; 2) you can’t exactly call me a typical navel-gazing blogger now, can you?<\/p>\n

As for placeholders, I’ve got a couple good ones per ongoing conversations in the comments. <\/p>\n

The first comes c\/o “Acid Washed Genes<\/a>,” where we’ve been having a pretty lively discussion of “gypsy” signifiers, balkan beats, and nu-whirled politricks. Special shoutout to Joro-boro who, among other gems, posted a link to the following video, about which he writes<\/a> — <\/p>\n

\nIt is kolbasti and according to my Turkish friends it is a style of music and dance originating from the Laz communities in the Trabzon area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to it being kolbasti, I would add that it is awesome:<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

The second is just a thought, inspired by some reportage c\/o Marlon<\/a> and Tito<\/a>, who both have noticed a number of English language pop\/club songs drifting into formerly Spanish-only (if not reggaeton-only) playlists. It’s easy enough to blame Pitbull alone for that, but I think the responsibility might actually lie with reggaeton itself. I have been thinking, for some time now<\/a>, that reggaeton was remarkable for making space in Anglo media for Spanish language music, but I might have gotten it totally wrong: instead, reggaeton has made it safe for English language pop\/club music to work its way into formerly Spanish-only spaces. Maybe the genre’s anti-imperialist detractors were right all along? Reggaeton: making the Latin world safe for Ke$ha. <\/p>\n

I don’t have a video for that, but I do have a reggaetony YooToob which people seem intent to send my way. I wonder whether it will rub you as wrongly as it rubs me<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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I suspect some dear readers out there, much as they like me, are getting sick of seeing my bristly face when they load the page, so I figured I’d get something else up here at the top, though I don’t have time for a proper post right now. One thing about those beard shots — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,401,406,10,417,72,405,407],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balkan","tag-blogging","tag-dance","tag-latin","tag-puertorico","tag-radio","tag-reggaeton","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}