© J. Katarzyna Woronowicz
John Malveaux of
writes:
The Black Business Association Salute to Black Music Award Dinner is
scheduled for June 20, 2017 at Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Los Angeles.
With respect for the Black Business Association, honorary chair Quincy
Jones and honorees Clarence Avant and Lee Bailey. Black Music Month is a
self serving industry creation to inflate record sales in only popular
music without consideration to achievements by people of African descent
in classical and opera music. Similar to the NAACP Image Awards, the
annual salute perpetuates or reinforces the false belief that classical
and opera music are WHITE genres. While the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Metropolitan Opera and other significant
institutions cast, book, and showcase first class international talent
of color, they are being betrayed by Black organizations fostering
limited racial pride. The current concept of Black Music Month does not
show the full range of achievements by people of color and denies our
children images of the full range of their human potential..
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