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Why is country music still underrepresented? IN 2018, THE RECORDING ACADEMY increased the number of nominees in the Big Four Grammy categories - album, song and record of the year and best new artist - from five to eight. Though Sturgill Simpson doesn't receive mainstream country radio play, A...
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| Published in: | Billboard 2023-02, Vol.135 (1), p.62-63 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Why is country music still underrepresented? IN 2018, THE RECORDING ACADEMY increased the number of nominees in the Big Four Grammy categories - album, song and record of the year and best new artist - from five to eight. Though Sturgill Simpson doesn't receive mainstream country radio play, A Sailor's Guide to Earth debuted at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and the set won the Grammy for best country album in 2017, so its album of the year nomination counts in the 2014-2018 tally. [...]country music remains outside of the large pop music tent, which includes many of the contemporary genres like pop and hip-hop and rock," says Beverly Keel, Middle Tennessee State University dean of the College of Media and Entertainment and a former MCA Records Nashville executive. |
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| ISSN: | 0006-2510 |