{"id":974048,"date":"2019-12-13T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=926651"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:54:36","slug":"the-grammys-promise-to-help-boost-the-number-of-women-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-grammys-promise-to-help-boost-the-number-of-women-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grammys Promise to Help Boost the Number of Women in Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the announcement of an unusually diverse slate of Grammy nominees<\/a> last month, the Recording Academy said this week that it will take new measures to bring more equality into the Grammy Awards<\/a>\u2019 membership base.<\/p>\n

They plan to double the number of female voters in the next five years, bring a diversity expert into their executive ranks, and ask outside companies and artists to help promote female producers and engineers in the music industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A task force led by Tina Tchen \u2014 a Chicago-based lawyer and a leader of the Hollywood campaign Time\u2019s Up \u2014 delivered a 47-page report earlier this year to the Recording Academy. Thursday, the Academy said that it will implement most of the task force\u2019s 18 recommendations.<\/p>\n

Actionable items from the report (read the full document here<\/a>) include diversifying the Academy\u2019s 65% male board of trustees, asking local chapters of the organization to meet new outreach targets, and closely examining the ranks of the nomination review committees, which review the submissions for the bulk of the Grammy Awards\u2019 categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have recently made tremendous progress and I\u2019m proud to report that our leadership team is currently 50 percent female and that the 2019 Academy membership class is the most diverse in our history,\u201d the Recording Academy\u2019s new CEO and president Deborah Dugan said in a <\/span>statement<\/a> accompanying the announcement. Dugan took over from the Academy\u2019s long-time head Neil Portnow earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever, there is still work to be done, Dugan noted. \u201cThe mission of the Recording Academy is to serve and advocate for music creators from all genres and of all genders and generations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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But the one proposal from the task force that the Academy declined to implement was ranked-choice voting for the top four Grammy Awards \u2014 which would have brought a more majoritarian system to the categories of Artist of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year.<\/p>\n

Under the current plurality system of voting, a nominee in one of the \u201cbig four\u201d categories can win with less than 13% of the vote. Although the Academy is open to further research on the matter, it said Thursday that the \u201cbenefit analysis did not convince the committee that it should be implemented immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Following the announcement of an unusually diverse slate of Grammy nominees last month, the Recording Academy said this week that it will take new measures to bring more equality into the Grammy Awards\u2019 membership base. They plan to double the number of female voters in the next five years, bring a diversity expert into their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:44:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}