Definitely need promoters putting more Black as well as female and LBGT artists on bills. Can't remember the name of the most recent European festival cited, but some artists who perform at other festivals had a thread on Facebook about certain European festivals booking the same lineup--and the majority were white and male--over again year in and year out. Even when doing things in these virtual times for streaming, no excuse for lineups made up primarily of predominantly white and male artists. I was happy to be introduced to a new artist--The AM--over Movement weekend. She plays excellent electro mostly Detroit and need to see her booked outside of Michigan. http://andrewdukeinthemix.com
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:22 PM kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > The thing about solving problems is that you do what you can do. Projects > like House of Altr do what they can: showcase and promote black artists. > > Techno - and the wider world of dance music - originates in the music of > Black americans. What black audiences listen to is a separate matter. They > may be more likely to connect with techno if they see people that look like > them up on stage. > > Labels and promoters CAN address the problem black erasure in dance > music. It's more an issue in Europe than the US, since in the US dance > music is less of a commercial phenomenon, but even here, white artists > crowd out Black music. > > You are right that when DEMF was free, it re-introduced techno to Black > Detroiters. I think Paxahau is doing a decent job, but the fact that the > festival is now an expensive ticket excludes a large audience who are > economically distressed. With the $200+ ticket price for the weekend, it's > absurd to think that the festival is even for the Black citizens of Detroit > any more. > > And not to put too fine a point on it, the subscribers to this list are > overwhelming middle class white people. At this point this is not a place > to go to get a Black perspective on anything. Is this list still worthwhile > and relevant? > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM David A. Powers <cybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Still, the idea that you can fix the problem of diversity on the >> producer/performer side, without increasing the diversity of the audience >> itself, seems super sketchy to me. >> >
