Nonsense! No reason at all to avoid the subject here or to be reticent about it .
It all connects up at some point. Militant purism is toxic, fuck that.
I was in a house band at a club called La Roca. The band was called La Roca's Tropicale and we played the type of musics you're describing. There were seemingly innumerable stocks of all kinds of things I had never heard before, meaning that it had been popular for a while.
I'd certainly not use this to prove a point, just saying that it's certainly not an uncommon vernacular term.
So...the list stops in 1980. Does that mean that somebody who uses this book to drive their primary "discovering" is going to be only a quarter-century behind the times?
So far, not as much as feared, although what there has been has been mostly ice, so yuck on that.
As long as the power stays on, it should be a nice hunker.