In June, the music industry started to have serious conversations about racism — but proof of change is hard to find
What’s more, the way in which change is supposedly unfolding in the music industry — behind closed doors, out of the public eye, with little to no accountability — will most likely only serve the status quo. The music industry is evolving on the music industry’s terms, which is to say, in the last two months, hardly at all.
“We want to see something tangible,” adds Chris Anokute, a manager and longtime major-label A&R whose Instagram account was an important source of industry criticism in the weeks after Blackout Tuesday. “Make someone black a chairman, a chairwoman. Give somebody black a venture. We want to seeThat is hard to find. Take the treatment of black musicians: None of the labels have said publicly that they will rethink the types of record deals they offer young black men and women.
None of the labels have shared statistics about diversity — or lack thereof — in their workforces. The label Interscope, which had white executives overseeing both “urban” marketing and “urban” radio promotion for years, finally promoted black executives, Laura Carter and Keinon Johnson, to those respective positions. Warner Records elevated Chris Atlas to evp of Urban Music & Marketing. Capitol hired Chris Turner as senior director of A&R.
Insiders say that the music industry’s various task forces are well staffed with smart executives, they have been churning away, and that they will likely start to roll out recommendations in August. Anokute adds that the, which includes representatives from multiple labels and several high-powered managers, “has some of the brightest and most influential leaders, so if anyone is going to hold the labels accountable, my money is on them.
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