Pop Tourism

Truth Hurts' "Addictive" actually. The intro to "Addicted To Bass" hs a vaguely latin feel to it I guess, but I'm not in a position to be more specific than that.

Cumbia is a very frustrating music to dance to. Pleasant, fast, but somewhat rigid and sexless without being ecstatically so.

have the resonances/implications/meanings/effects of the practice changed?

By "practice" do you mean "pop tourism" as practiced on the ILM board of as practiced elsewhere (by musicians, for instance)?

I'm not sure that Truth Hurts and Quik sampling Mangeshkar in 2002 is different in kind from the Real Roxanne and Howie Tee sampling Elmer Fudd in 1986: it's not so much tourism as grab bag/party favors. But we'll see if there are any consequences, followups, imitations. What I struck me about "Addictive" was how much the sample ruled the song.

What struck me, that is. I didn't strike me, though perhaps I should have.

I took a two hour cumbia workshop back in the spring, but I'm still not really sure how to do it, or sometimes even how to recognize it. It didn't help that this was folklorically oriented, when I am mostly interested in how it would be danced to in clubs (not that much gets played in clubs around me, but occasionally it happens). It's Colombian, by the way (did someone say that already?), but it's fairly popular in other Latin American countries.

Many of the cumbia movements reminded me of things I had done in African dance classes long ago.