I don’t think that you can say that blackness and whiteness are concepts in popular music let alone useful concepts. In today’s music industry within popular music whiteness and blackness essentially don’t matter. In today’s society in regard to different types of genre blackness and whiteness don’t really come in to it. Most people when asked about blackness within popular music would associate it with r n b and hip hop. But there are so many white artists today involved in these types of genres too. For example Eminem is one of the most successful rap artists in the world and is white. He could be said to be one the primary artists which has made rap such the success it is today.
You can’t associate blackness which one particular genre and whiteness with another genre. Both black and white artists contribute to all different genres.
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While I can't disagree with anything you have said in this post, its scope is drawn rather narrowly. The study of popular music is not just concerned with what is happening now and therefore to confine yourself in this way is not particularly helpful.
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