Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThursday morning’s announcement of several new Grammy Awards, particularly the long-overdue Songwriter of the Year honor, has already gotten a strong response from the music community.
It also reflects an Academy that has been increasingly and more immediately responsive to calls from the community — while the Songwriter of the Year has been a glaring and baffling omission in the half-century-plus since the Grammys began, calls for it have increased in recent years.
Although the same could be said of the new Special Merit Awards recognizing a song that advances social change — and recent socially relevant songs by Childish Gambino and H.E.R.
have won Song of the Year — there’s no question that this alarming time in our nation’s history has made a greater call for that kind of recognition, and it is a welcome one.
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