107.9 The River » artist coalition http://theriver1079.com Casper's Real Rock Variety Fri, 24 May 2013 18:49:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Artist Coalition Calls for Grammy Boycott After Several Categories Given the Ax http://theriver1079.com/artist-coalition-calls-for-grammy-boycott-after-several-categories-given-the-ax/ http://theriver1079.com/artist-coalition-calls-for-grammy-boycott-after-several-categories-given-the-ax/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:05:31 +0000 Jeff Giles http://tsminteractive.com/?p=22080 If you’ve ever sat through an entire Grammy Awards show, the idea of having a few less categories might not strike you as such a bad idea — but for some of the artists affected by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to whittle down the number of awards, it’s a potentially racist affront.

A group of musicians — including Paul Simon and jazz legend Herbie Hancock — has banded together to call for a boycott of CBS, which airs the awards ceremony, and is investigating a legal response to the Grammy cutbacks. As artist Bobby Sanabria put it in an interview with the AP, “We will ask people to stop watching CBS, boycott their sponsors and then write them. We’re at a critical juncture.”

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