Diasporic cultural forms develop autonomous indigenous locations in the host society

Evidence

Thus dancehall music and subculture in Britain was of course inspired by, and takes much of its style and attitude from, the dancehall music and subculture of Jamaica. But it now has its own variant black British forms, and its own indigenous locations. The recent “dancehall” film Babymother is “authentically” located in the mixed-race inner-city zone of Harlesden, in the streets and clubs, the recording studios and live venues, the street life and danger zones of North London. The three ragga girls, its heroines, shop for their exotic outfits in another suburb of London, Southall, which is familiarly known as Little India. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 845

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete illustration of how diasporic culture develops ‘indigenous locations’ and autonomy from the origin — a key mechanism.
• XREF: connects to: Autonomous cultural spheres internally duplicate the social and economic macrocosm’s structures — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 51