Re: What is "Negerpunk"?

[Phillip Susi <psusi ubuntu com>]

On 06/14/2013 05:00 PM, Kip Warner wrote:
> Thanks Götz. To be fair, we can't assess the motives behind the
> nomenclature at the time the decision was made so I don't really know
> for certain if it was intended to be a pejorative. As an example, the
> prefix of the genre's etymology is rooted in the Latin which simply
> means black. If it was thought that that had some kind of cultural
> relevance to the music, it might be more suitable than a vague
> "afro-punk" since I can't see anyone being comfortable with the
> hypothetical "central asian-punk", "far east punk", "american punk",
> "eurasian-punk", etc.
>
> But if you can find a compelling reference that the motive was not in
> good faith, I will remove it ASAP.

I think the test that should be used is whether or not this term is 
actually in use.  Is there a published album that classifies itself with 
this label?  A music store somewhere with a section dedicated to this 
Genre?  If not, then perhaps it really was a bad joke and it's time to 
stop copying it.