The Nelson George Mixtape: Artists Issues The creation of black music departments meant bigger advances, larger recording budgets, more coordinated national promotion, and better royalty rates. However, artists still didn’t own their masters, meani... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Funky Demise of Black Band Culture, Part 2 The second section of a long essay about popular black music and bands examines, “where have the black bands gone?” Basically, into the 21st century black bands have become irrelevant to production... Read More...