Emmys: Nominations in Music Categories Show Greater Diversity
variety.comJon Burlingame editorThe Television Academy’s music branch is leading the way in awarding diversity. Forty-six percent of all of this year’s nominees in the music categories are women, people of color, or both.Nine of the 41 nominees, or 22 percent, are women; 13 of the 41, nearly a third, are people of color.
While the female contingent is a slight decline from last year (27 percent were women), the POC percentage is way up (from one-fifth of the nominees last year).Women composers are nominated in five of the seven music categories; people of color, in six of the seven.
It is a near-complete repudiation of the decades-long, studio-promulgated white male power structure that kept both women and POC out of contention for prime gigs.
Academy officials are elated.Music governors Jeff Russo and Sherri Chung issued this statement to Variety: “We’re very excited about the representation in this year’s list of nominees.
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