Brent and I went to see Vieux Farka Toure at the Rock and Roll Hotel last year. The two opening performances were more traditional (more tribal?) African music and dance (traditional percussions and wind instruments, tribal dress), yet the performers themselves were African American. And then Vieux gets on stage and he's (just) African, and he plays with a Stratocaster the most amazing ground-breaking music- not Afropop nor American rock. And he's wearing jeans and a button-down loose Oxford.