In Haiti, organized Afro-centrism is called Noirisme. Recorded history has no part to play.

There is some African influence in anything American pop because African-Americans have always been Americans. There is European influence in anything African-American for the exact same reason… they have always been Americans.

The first African-Americans in popular entertainment were Anglo-Americans and the first women were men.

So an African-American woman's song would be sung by a black-faced, Anglo, cross-dresser. A Liberace floor show was more 'authentic.'

Typically, after all the BS is scraped away, it boils down the academic's personal consumer preferences for... 'emotional and improvisational drive and depth' or some such.