The music industry is debating the term “urban,” but the bigger problem is 'pop'
The modern music industry has often been reluctant to acknowledge the racial disparities baked into its foundationBut that’s becoming harder in recent weeks. “Let’s talk about getting rid of the word ‘pop’ too,” the veteran producer and record executivesaid last week during the WebinA&R Sessions, a Zoom panel series hosted by Eddie Blackmon, senior director of A&R at AWAL. “…
The structure called out by No I.D. dates back to the origins of today’s music business. “Because of industry and audience racism, black music has been relegated to a separate and unequal marketing structure,” Reebee Garofalo, an essay originally published in the 1990s. “… The specific practices and mechanisms that tend to institutionalize [black music’s] exclusion and dilution change over time and, for the most part, remain unchallenged even to this day.
“Because of industry and audience racism, black music has been relegated to a separate and unequal marketing structure.”
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