BlackoutTuesday was no day off for the music business, but will it yield real results?
Although it was billed as a “pause,” “Blackout Tuesday” — during which much of the music industry “disconnected from work” to focus on ways it can support and stand in solidarity with the black community — was not meant to be a day off, and indeed it wasn’t for the greater music industry.
The shutdown was led by the #TheShowMustBePaused initiative, which was launched by executives Jamila Thomas of Atlantic Records and Brianna Agyemang of Platoon, who said in a statement Wednesday that more than 1,500 black members and allies from the music community took part in a series of video summits in which participants “engaged in an organized dialogue and generated ideas on how to effectively make change within the music industry,” and which one participant described as “emotional” and...
For her part, Thomas said, “George Floyd was killed on a Monday and the following Tuesday we all went back to work. This should not have been the case and this is why we called for the industry to pause on Tuesday June 2nd. The music industry is an industry that has profited predominantly from Black art.
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