作者braveshsu (C'est Moi。)
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标题[新闻] 葛莱美奖宣布:将大幅减少奖项
时间Thu Apr 7 02:14:58 2011
目前有109个奖项的葛莱美奖
将在明年大刀阔斧砍掉31个奖项 仅剩78个项目
其中各音乐领域的男/女歌手奖将不再以性别分类
以R&B奖项为例 原本此项目有八个奖
下届开始男歌手、女歌手、团体或重唱组合奖将合并成最佳R&B演出
保留专辑、歌曲跟传统R&B表演三个奖项
当代R&B专辑跟都会/另类演出这两个已经有十年的奖项将被删除
此外,一个奖项若报名人数不足40组艺人
该奖项会减少入围名额
若报名组数介於25-39之间,将仅提名三项作品
若报名组数低於25,该奖项当年不颁发
若连续三年报名组数低於25,则该奖项将被淘汰
新闻详见告示牌:
http://ppt.cc/Jmy;
Grammys Announce Broad Overhaul of Award Categories
by Phil Gallo, Los Angeles | ?? 06, 2011 12:20 EDT
In the broadest reorganization of the Grammy Awards' 53-year history, the
Recording Academy has consolidated dozens of awards categories, altered
eligibility requirements and rewritten the rule on how members may vote.
The impact will be immediate as next year's 54th annual Grammy Awards will
have only 78 categories, 31 fewer than presented at the 53rd ceremony held in
February. Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow, Academy chair
emeritus Jimmy Jam and Academy VP of Awards Bill Freimuth made the
announcement Wednesday (April 6) at the Academy's headquarters in Santa
Monica, Calif.
The most noticeable changes are in the stripping of gender-based categories
in pop, R&B, rock and country. There will no longer be separate awards for
male or female vocals, simply an award in each genre for a single "solo
performance." Several instrumental categories have been eliminated as well.
"Every year there are changes but we've never … stopped and stepped back to
look at the whole thing," Portnow told Billboard in an exclusive interview.
"[We asked], is there an underlying infrastructure and rationale across all
the awards as to how we're doing this? And what we found is, there wasn't.
"So we said, 'All right, let's deal with the holy grail here. Let's sit down
and talk about what might be a vision or an overview structure of this that
gives us some consistency.'"
In addition to the category alterations, the Recording Academy has written
new rules on entries and voting. Each category must have at least 40 artist
entries to move forward. If a category receives between 25 and 39, only three
recordings will receive nominations.
If there are fewer than 25 submissions, the category will not be presented.
The category will be discontinued if there are fewer than 25 entries for
three consecutive years.
Voters, who previously chose nine genre fields to cast votes, will now vote
in up to 20 categories in the genre fields plus the four general categories.
Portnow said the goal is to have more knowledgeable and focused voting.
"I think the positive side is we've taken a good, serious look at what we're
doing," he said. "We contemporized it, we organized it and we visioned it in
a way that will suit us going into the future. In other words, if you just
continue business as usual, at some point, typically, you're going to hit
some sort of a pothole in the road."
In early 2009, the Recording Academy's Awards and Nominations Committee and
its trustees created a subcommittee to study categories and the process,
eventually recommending the category consolidation to create parity across
all fields. The board of trustees approved their recommendations.
The result is that the genre of R&B has four awards instead of eight; rock,
country and pop have four awards each instead of seven.
In dissecting R&B as an example, the three categories of female, male and duo
or a group vocal performance have been consolidated to R&B performance while
best album, best song and traditional R&B performance are unchanged.
Contemporary R&B album and urban/alternative performance, two 10-year-old
categories, have been dropped.
Fields that have not been separated by gender have fewer changes. There are
now five gospel categories instead of seven; jazz is down from six to four;
and classical has seven instead of 11. Changes in the classical field opens
the door for classical albums to compete for album of the year and for albums
that formerly fit classical crossover to submit in other genre categories.
A contentious roar over the changes is likely to come from categories that
have been around for only a few years, those that were added after heavy
lobbying efforts. Among those are Hawaiian music, Native American music and
zydeco or Cajun that have been folded into the single regional roots music
category, where polka recordings will also be eligible. (The polka category
was scratched in 2009). Blues, folk and world return to a single award for
each, losing the distinction between contemporary and traditional.
The committee reported that they were concerned with the consistently low
number of entries in the Hawaiian, Native American and zydeco or Cajun
categories, all of which have been introduced in the 21st century.
The Grammy Awards receive more criticism than any other peer-to-peer arts
awards show -- chiefly the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys. They were taken to task
soon after this year's telecast when longtime marketing and music executive
Steve Stoute called the show "a series of hypocrisies and contradictions" in
a full-page ad in the New York Times. After meeting several days later,
Stoute and Portnow issued a joint statement saying they would discuss how the
Recording Academy could evolve "in an ever-changing cultural environment."
The changes announced Wednesday were already in play, Portnow said.
"The part that not everybody will be happy about at first is getting their
heads around the fact that things have changed," Portnow said. "But the fact
is: Everybody [who] releases a record within the standards and the
qualification elements is going to be eligible for a Grammy. It's just going
to look a little different, fit in a different place than they may have. They
may be facing other nominees or nominations differently than they had in the
past. But at the end of the day, we think excellence will prevail."
While the Academy continually tweaks categories, most noticeably Best New
Artist, the last significant upheaval came in 1995 with the introduction of
review boards to make the final decisions on nominations in top categories.
Nominations review committees determine the five finalists in the general,
country, R&B, Latin, gospel, jazz, classical and music video categories. The
last time fewer than 80 Grammy Awards were handed out at a ceremony was 1991.
Besides the general field, the fields of dance, alternative, new age, reggae,
comedy, visual media, composing/arranging, package, notes, production,
historical and music video are unchanged. The musical show category has been
retitled musical theater.
The Recording Academy will present information sessions in its 12 chapter
cities this month and in May to explain the changes. The Academy has created
a "category mapper" at its website to explain changes to the membership as
well.
Today at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET, Portnow, Freimuth and Jam will participate in a
live online chat about the changes. The event can be viewed at
livestream.com, grammy.com and the Grammys' Facebook page. Billboard's Gail
Mitchell will moderate; questions may be submitted via Facebook and Twitter.
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美中不足的是,抬望眼,总看见园中西隅,
剩下的那两棵义大利柏树中间,露出一块楞楞的空白来,
缺口当中,映着湛湛青空,悠悠白云,
那是一道女娲炼石也无法弥补的天裂。
--白先勇《树犹如此》
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1F:推 AnExotic:合在一起,这样竞争也太激烈些! 04/07 09:56
2F:推 grafan:说真的 该删的不删 不该删的却删了一大堆 04/07 11:37
3F:推 aoisaiky:对阿... Minaj想看她得奖... 唉 04/07 11:43
4F:→ aoisaiky:话说 告示牌也真好笑 放泰勒妹掉奖盃的照片XDD 04/07 11:43
5F:推 likeaprayer:那个照片选的太妙了XDDD 04/07 12:24
6F:→ recx:还是觉得男女该分开... 04/07 17:04
7F:→ spitzdog:男女不分开这什麽鬼? 04/07 18:02
8F:推 nikiliu:好离谱~又不是AI-男女共抢一个奖?真是老番癫! 04/07 19:47
9F:推 moo885588:R&B 男女歌手是我最期待的奖项耶 04/07 22:28
10F:推 nttu94310:合并感觉好怪...不对吧 04/07 22:48