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Grammys take world music global with award category name change
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completemusicupdate.comOrganisers of the Grammy Awards have announced that they are changing the name of their Best World Music Album category to Best Global Music Album.
The new name, they reckon, will remove “connotations of colonialism”.“As we continue to embrace a truly global mindset, we update our language to reflect a more appropriate categorisation that seeks to engage and celebrate the current scope of music from around the world”, says a statement from Grammy producers the US Recording Academy.“Over the summer we held discussions with artists, ethnomusicologists and linguists from around the world who determined that there was an opportunity to update the Best World Music Album category toward a more relevant, modern, and inclusive term”, it goes.
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