>>I wonder if the term 'black music'
>>carries any significance in Ghana or Nigeria?
>>
>it is clear that we are in discussing it from a western
>context. it has less signficance in places like ghana and west
>africa because everybody is more or less black...lol...

Is that clear?

>when i talk about black music i am mostly referring to music
>made by black people in america.

So you've made a new distinction here. African people don't make 'black music'.

i'm not one of those people
>that goes to great lengths to link black american music
>directly to africa in order to validate its blackness. the
>black in black music comes from within the diaspora.

I don't know what diaspora means.

And another thing...I dont' know what a victorian neck-tie is and have no idea what your talking about. You could have made up all that shit and I wouldn't know the better.