The torrent of criticism around Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s controversial remarks regarding Black and female musicians continued on Tuesday as both the pioneering rock group Living Colour a…
continued on Tuesday as both the pioneering rock group Living Colour and the Black Music Action Coalition weighed in with statements.
“Mr. Wenner’s apology only solidifies the idea. That his book is a reflection of his worldview suggests that it is narrow and small indeed.”co-founders Willie “Prophet” Stiggers and Caron Veazey said in a joint statement: “Jann Wenner’s recent statements indicate a persistent bias within the music industry that we at BMAC are working to combat. He’s shown what many industry leaders still think about Black and female musicians, and his choice of words are an affront to the creativity and genius exhibited by so many artists. The TRUE masters are the Black creators of the rock and roll genre; those by which each interviewee in the book has been touched and influenced.
“It’s not that they’re not creative geniuses. It’s not that they’re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my guest. You know, Joni [Mitchell] was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock,” Wenner said.
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