The UPDATE . Inheriting from the correct topic and declaring attributes in pairs (with android:and without a prefix ) was a fix!
<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
<item name="android:subtitleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarSubTitleText</item>
<item name="subtitleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarSubTitleText</item>
<item name="android:background">@color/blue</item>
<item name="background">@color/blue</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarSubTitleText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Subtitle">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
<item name="android:textSize">@dimen/subtitle</item>
</style>
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