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Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine are known for its left leaning politics. He does of course know rock music and its players.
This especially is going to tick a lot of people off:
This especially is going to tick a lot of people off:
- Wenner said that Black and female artists couldn't "articulate" at the same "level" as the white male musicians in his book.
- Rolling Stone cofounder Jann Wenner is publishing a book composed of interviews with rock "masters."
- Those "masters," who include Bono, John Lennon, and Mick Jagger, are all white men.
- Wenner said that Black and female artists couldn't "articulate" at the same "level" as the white male musicians in his book.
Rolling Stone cofounder Jann Wenner, who left the publication in 2019, is coming out with a new book, "The Masters," about rock legends — Bono, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger among them. And while his list of seven "philosophers" of the musical genre doesn't include any artists of color or women, Wenner says that there's a reason.
"They just didn't articulate at that level," Wenner told The New York Times in an interview with columnist David Marchese.
Wenner's book is composed of interviews conducted during his Rolling Stone days, including his watershed conversation with John Lennon in 1970, in addition to a new one with Bruce Springsteen. Marchese confronted Wenner on an acknowledgement in the introduction of the book that female musicians and musicians of color are simply not in Wenner's "zeitgeist," and pushed him on how he selected his subjects — and Wenner pushed back.