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Long calls for black recruitment.
The UK music industry needs to recruit more black employees if it is to continue to serve black British artists, according to one leading executive.
Westbury Music's director Paulette Long became the first black person to sit on the PRS board earlier this year. This move, she says, opened up "a bag full of questions".
"People will find this fact uneasy," she says. "[PRS chairman] Ellis Rich was talking at the AGM about promoting diversification in the PRS membership. That shows there is something not quite right. Musically, creatively and artistically we have never had a problem. So the problem must be on the business side."
And the problem, she says, which she is drawing attention to as Black History Month draws to an end, is not just with publishing but industry- wide.
"[The industry] is seen as being a closed shop and an old boys' network," she says. "You will be competing against people whose fathers work in the company."
In order to address the situation, Long believes that companies need to look at their ...
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