Aug 2, 2013
Within the context of the white twerk trend, the Postal Service fan reaction seems disturbing: We’d like our booty shaking, but when we ask for it, and also when we do it ourselves. An uninvited performance by a raw, aggressive MC like Big Freedia, on white music-goers’ home turf, and not on their own terms, was received as a whole different game: a confrontation.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/01/white_music_fans_are_afraid_of_difference/
File under: un/sanctioned appropriation; when white public spheres of exclusivity have their boundaries challenged; bringing wreck; the politics of the live music.