BLACKOUT: My 40 Years in the Music Business
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1634923847 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 142 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Blackout is a ride through my whirlwind of media jobs, working for and with some of the music industry’s most colorful, well-known and scandalous players. Radio introduced me to women. During my very first stint in radio, I was Paul “Pure Love” Porter from midnight to 3 a.m., and I fell in love with the medium of radio and the impact I had on my community. Since 1976, when the busing riots in Boston sent me scrambling into the radio station at WRBB at Northeastern University, the music industry has been my life. Radio introduced me to cocaine. Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant in the industry. And radio killed some of them too. And Blackout is an inside account of how corporations erased Black identity from Black radio and mainstream music — and why I chose to fight back.. Radio introduced me to some of my best friends
Good read about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the radio & records biz For more than 50 years, commercial FM radio has had the power to inspire, influence, entertain, and inform listeners. It's also had the power to break artists and sell records. So, from day one, pay for play has been part of the game. But in the past two decades, terrestrial radio has undergone a sea change in terms of consolidation, corporate programming, digitization, the minimization of the role of program directors and air personalities, and unrelenting competition from satellite and Internet broadcasters and from digital streaming services. Radio's ability to break artists has been compromised. What's more, the music itself has changed, . Telling His Truth I remember Mr. Porter from his earliest days @ 'KYS and I agree with much of what he's saying, because I have said a lot of it myself for decades. There is a reason that the type of music and programming on 'Black' radio stations fits certain criteria and now that it's been 30 years since 'gangsta rap' first hit the airwaves we see what has happened to our communities as a second generation is now having their minds poisoned by the negativity in their music and videos that they grow up thinking is normal. Blackout was an easy read and I recommend it for anyone who loves Black music.. Jeffrey Allen Leonard said A great, candid, revealing read for people interested in urban radio and its love-hate relationship with the black music industr. As a forty year broadcast veteran myself, I was especially able to appreciate my friend, Paul Porter's, excellent, candid narrative of his never boring sojourn in radio. A lot of our experiences were similar naturally, but so many are very different. Paul is not afraid to name names and does. Well written and fast moving and thoughtful. Well done from the captain of Night flight 9A great, candid, revealing read for people interested in urban radio and its love-hate relationship with the black music industr As a forty year broadcast veteran myself, I was especially able to appreciate my friend, Paul Porter's, excellent, candid narrative of his never boring sojourn in radio. A lot of our experiences were similar naturally, but so many are very different. Paul is not afraid to name names and does. Well written and fast moving and thoughtful. Well done from the captain of Night flight 93.. .
Blackout is essential reading for anyone who cares about the history and future of African-Americans in the multi-billion dollar music industry.. His long history in the music and entertainment business makes him the ideal guide through the sometimes treacherous history of an industry where corporate executives and radio conglomerates wield enormous power over artists, and often abuse or fail them. Paul Porter has been the mellifluous voice of Black music as a host on BET, its most loving critic and its most passionate advocate