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Jann Wenner's fall from grace doesn't absolve music journalism Recent abhorent comments made by Rolling Stone co-founder are a reminder that music journalism still has a gatekeeping problem.

And the times, they are a changing...

Opinion | Rolling Stone's iconic rock ‘n’ roll gatekeeper is telling on himself now There's a reason why white classic rock bands were covered endlessly, while people of color and women were all but erased from the magazine’s version of music history.

Previously known only as "a gardener and horn player," recent research has identified the figure in this painting as Emmanuel Rio, an enslaved Brazilian man of African descent who was sent to Emperor Francis I in Vienna around 1820.

About 10 years old when he arrived in Vienna, Rio was enrolled in an elite private school, where he excelled in French, Italian, drawing, and especially music. Francis fostered his talent, gifting Rio a French horn on the occasion of his graduation. Despite his aptitude for music, Rio was assigned to work in the imperial garden.

In this portrait, produced a year after the emperor’s death, Rio holds his favored instrument while looking at an image of Francis, beneath which hangs a gold watch given to him by the monarch.

The painting’s sentimentality does little to suggest the precariousness of its subject’s situation in Vienna, which only worsened after Francis died. For the rest of his life, Viennese officials moved Rio to various positions throughout Europe, threatened him with forced military service when he resisted, and, by the late 1840s, discussed sending him back to Brazil or to Africa.

See this powerful 1836 portrait by the artist Albert Schindler—now on view in Gallery 221.

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Jann Wenner Defends His Legacy, and His Generation’s The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine on the legacy of boomers and why he chose only white men for his book on rock’s “masters.”

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Jann Wenner removed from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame board after interview The Rolling Stone co-founder's remarks to The New York Times about why he didn't include interviews with Black or women artists in his book 'The Masters' have been widely criticized.

History!

If you thought it’s the Marvelettes,Vandellas or Supremes doing those oohs and ahhs in the background, think again… it’s most likely the ANDANTES~

The Andantes were a female session group for the Motown record label during the 1960s. Composed of Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps,the group sang background vocals on numerous Motown recordings,including songs by Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin, Edwin Starr, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers, among others. It is estimated they appeared on 20,000 recordings. Wow!!

There's no duo quite like Rising Appalachia Music, as evidenced by their recent Basic Folk interview. Check it out on BGS, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

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