Why, whenever a society is going down the tubes and the people start feeling insecure, the Middle-Eastern beat starts dominating the popular music?
See hip-hop in the States today. Compare to turbo-folk in Serbia in the 1990s.
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Not to mention that some of us in the US are getting very interested in turbo-folk, chalga, and the like. Then again, I've been listening to middle-eastern music for a while, as I'm part of the local belly-dance community.