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Aaron Sankin

San Francisco Board Of Supervisors Takes On... The Grammy Awards?

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: San Francisco Board of Supervisors Grammy Resolution, Grammy Category Elimination, San Francisco Arts Commission, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Supervisor Eric Mar, Carlos Santana, Grammy Awards, San Francisco News

San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar has a problem with the Grammy Awards, and he's introducing legislation before the city's Board of Supervisors that w...

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Carlos Santana Calls Grammy Academy 'Racist'

Fox News Latino | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Latin Music, Video, Cultura, Carlos Santana, Grammy Academy, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Music, Latin Grammy, Grammy Awards, Latino Voices News

Guitar master Carlos Santana says those involved in eliminating Latin music categories from the Grammy Awards are "ignorant and racist." In an inte...

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Are the Grammys Racist?

Michal Shapiro | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Bobby Sanabria, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Naras, Grammys, Grammy Categories, Bobby Sanabria Grammys, Grammy Boycott, Grammy Awards Reduction, Bobby Sanabria Grammy Awards, Grammy Awards, Entertainment News
Michal Shapiro

By lumping together certain ethnic musical forms, it makes it far harder for the artists involved in those genres to get the acknowledgement that the Grammy award bestows, and the career benefits thereof.

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The Generation That Killed Rock 'n Roll

Nathan Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neil Portnow, Ipod, Myspace, Universal, Music Business, Beyoncé, Grammy, Music and the Internet, Illegal Downloads, Bono, Grammys, Virgin Megastore, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Bob Dylan, AC/DC, Downloading, The Beatles, Warner, Sony, Tower Records, Andy Karp, Album Sales, Emi, Mitch Bainwol, Illegal-Downloading, Grammy Awards, Bruce Springsteen, Media News
Nathan Harden

People should pay for music to support all the unknown artists out there who are trying to make it. What if internet piracy had existed in the 1960s? No Dylan? No Beatles? Would Bono be working as a longshoreman?

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