{"id":700,"date":"2011-04-07T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/07\/the-grammys-are-cutting-31-categories\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:55:26","slug":"the-grammys-are-cutting-31-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/04\/07\/the-grammys-are-cutting-31-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grammys Are Cutting 31 Categories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/images\/grammyaward.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"129\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, something that has nothing to do with Steve Stoute (we hope). \u00a0Instead, the Recording Academy is now cutting 31 categories from the Grammy Awards, a move that could up the value of the prize. That means &#8220;just&#8221; 78 awards will be handed out in 2012, from a high of 109.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that was a lot of awards. In fact, there were just 28 awards in the 50s, a number that grew nearly fourfold over the decades. \u00a0So why the trophy inflation?\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;This growth springs from a\u00a0tradition of honoring specific genres and\/or subgenres within a field, and it has basically been approached one category at a time without a current overall guiding vision and without consistency across the various genre fields,&#8221; explained NARAS chief Neil Portnow. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Actually, viewers at home may not even notice, since many of the smaller awards are handed out between commercial breaks. \u00a0And crowds have less appetite for long, drawn-out programming. \u00a0On top of that, some of these simplications were simply overdue. \u00a0For example, &#8216;Best Contemporary R&amp;B Album&#8217; and &#8216;Best R&amp;B Album&#8217; are now one, and &#8216;Best Traditional Folk Album&#8217; and &#8216;Best Contemporary Folk Album&#8217; have been consolidated into &#8216;Best Folk Album&#8217;. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a worthwhile trimming, though not everyone is applauding. \u00a0For example, heavy chops are happening in categories like Zydeco and Cajun, and ultimately, this will mark a major reduction in bragging rights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, something that has nothing to do with Steve Stoute (we hope). \u00a0Instead, the Recording&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}