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The UK music industry has serious cause for concern over its current record on racially diverse employees, according to new Government figures. Music Week has seen new DCMS national statistics regarding employment in the UK creative industries, and it doesn\u2019t make for triumphant reading. In 2013, just 6.7% of all jobs in the UK’s ‘Music, Performing and Visual Arts Industries’ were held by people who could be categorised as BAME (\u2018black, Asian and minority ethnic\u2019). <\/p>\n
That figure represented a 0.8% rise in BAME employees on 2011, but couldn\u2019t hide the shocking fact that 93.3% of employees in the sector – or around 19 in every 20 people – was white.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, a fully accurate depiction of music industry employment figures could not be gleaned from the\u00a0 report, Creative Industries: Focus On Employment, as it lumps together data from both the UK’s performing arts and music sectors – and fails to break down the two industries into their respective fields. <\/p>\n
Regardless, the overwhelming impression is hardly a boundlessly positive one.<\/p>\n
In fact, a smaller proportion of employees categorised as BAME appeared in the Music and Performing Arts industries than other sectors including Advertising & Marketing (10.5% BAME), IT, Software and Computer Services (15%) and Publishing (10.6%).<\/p>\n
Officially, job sectors covered by the \u2018Music, Performing and Visual Arts\u2019 category in the report were: Sound Recording and Music Publishing; Artistic Creation; Cultural Education; Performing Arts; Support Activities to Performing Arts and Operation of Artist Facilities.<\/p>\n
Overall, 227,000 jobs were held by white people in the sector with a paltry 16,000 held by BAME individuals.<\/p>\n
Source: Music Week<\/p>\n