We used to have a poster on here of African origin who went into some depth to explain that in Black youth culture, once something has been done, they are keen to leave it behind and move on to the next thing.

Its away of always beng one step ahead of the stereotype and one step further away from history.

Losing blues in the process is a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water, but the bathwater was pretty foul and is taking a long tme to bail out.

There are obviously many great and talented current black blues and jazz artists, and many more fans, and the above is a very wide and sweeping generalization, but it is a useful one.