The Grammys have a major problem with diversity. Lip service isn’t going to solve it | Ian Brennan

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 the change as the next step in its evolution “to embrace a truly global mindset”.

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