Jann Wenner, co-founder of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame and Rolling Stone journal, has been faraway from the Corridor of Fame’s board of administrators sooner or later after an interview together with his controversial feedback about feminine and Black artists was revealed.
“Jann Wenner has been faraway from the board of administrators of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Basis,” the Rock Corridor mentioned in a quick assertion issued as we speak.
In Friday’s interview with The New York Occasions, Wenner defined that his new e-book Masters, which is centered on conversations with “extraordinary musicians who dominated rock ‘n’ roll,” contains solely white male rock stars as a result of “none of [the women] have been as articulate sufficient on this mental stage.”
Addressing the shortage of Black artists, he declared that they too “simply didn’t articulate at that stage.” He continued, “You realize, only for public relations sake, perhaps I ought to have gone and located one Black and one girl artist to incorporate right here that didn’t measure as much as that very same historic commonplace, simply to avert this type of criticism.”
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His feedback shortly ignited an offended firestorm of criticism, with Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine declaring Wenner a “vapid, self-important, self-appointed arbiter of what’s deserving of consideration in rock” in a submit on X (previously Twitter).
Earlier as we speak the Montclair Literary Competition canceled Wenner’s deliberate Sept. 28 look, at which he was to advertise Masters. Based on NJArts.web, the competition mentioned the occasion was being canceled “for a couple of causes.”
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