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The Grammys have a major problem with global diversity. Lip service isn’t going to solve it – The Guardian
Renaming the world music category does little to fix its pattern of exclusion, which has robbed audiences of truly global talent
This past summer the Grammys academy summoned an emergency meeting, circumventing its own rules and standard procedure to fast-track a name revision for World Music: the lone international category accommodating those outside the English and Spanish-speaking worlds. The new title, Global Music, was determined to be a more relevant, modern and inclusive term which symbolises a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk and non-American that the former term embodied, it said, referring to…
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