Rolling Stone's ex-publisher says black and women musicians aren't articulate or masters

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5. Here's some of what he said

https://consequence.net/2023/09/jann-wenner-black-female-musicians-dont-articulate/

...Wenner explained that the artists selected for the book — most of whom, its worth noting, were his close friends — were “not a deliberate selection,” but instead were “intuitive” choices informed by his “personal interest and love of them.” But he also slightly contradicts himself in the very same interview, stating that these so-called “masters” of rock ‘n’ roll also “had to meet a couple criteria” and measure up to a nebulous “historical standard.”

“Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,” Wenner went on. “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… I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

Seemingly attempting to move on to the next topic, Wenner concluded: “Just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism. Which, I get it.”

fuck Jann Wenner