{"id":25789,"date":"2024-09-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=25789"},"modified":"2024-09-19T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T08:00:12","slug":"tv-series-looks-at-how-black-musicians-were-exploited-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/tv-radio\/tv-series-looks-at-how-black-musicians-were-exploited-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"TV series looks at how Black musicians were exploited over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new three-part music series The Battle for Black Music: Paid in Full airs tomorrow (21 September) showing the story of how some of most-loved artists were exploited because of their race.<\/p>\n<p>The Open University\/BBC co-production features on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 9.25pm on Saturday and follows the story of how well-known greats such as Louis Armstrong to Prince suffered.<\/p>\n<p>It looks at the stories of how successful rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, blues and jazz musicians became victims to this treatment by the music industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Supporting Online Content<\/u><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit our Broadcast and Partnerships site <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.open.ac.uk\/history-and-the-arts\/the-battle-for-black-music-paid-in-full\/\"><strong>OU Connect<\/strong><\/a>\u2026 where you can <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.open.ac.uk\/history-and-the-arts\/the-battle-for-black-music-paid-in-full\/\">find exclusive extended interviews<\/a> with Nile Rogers, Ice T, and industry experts from the series.<\/p>\n<p>This series was commissioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/openuniv.sharepoint.com\/sites\/intranet-learner-discovery-services\/pages\/broadcast.aspx\">Broadcast and Partnerships<\/a> and is supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty Of Business And Law<em>,<\/em> with particular relevance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/music\/degrees\/ba-music-r25\">BA (Hons) Music (R25)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/economics\/degrees\/ba-economics-r30\">BA (Hons) Economics (R30)<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/business-management\/degrees\/ba-business-management-q91\">BA (Hons) Business Management (Q91)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commissioned by <strong>Dr Caroline Ogilvie, Director, Broadcast and Partnerships<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Academic Consultant: <strong>Dr Marie Thompson, Dr Julia Chukwuma and Sanjay Gandhi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Media Fellows: <strong>Prof. Zoe Walkington, Dr Emily Bullock and Alessandro Saroli<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Broadcast Project Manager &amp; Online Content: <strong>Matthew Ray <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new three-part music series The Battle for Black Music: Paid in Full airs tomorrow (21 September) showing the story of how some of most-loved artists were exploited because of their race. The Open University\/BBC co-production features on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer at 9.25pm on Saturday and follows the story of how well-known greats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-25789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-radio","tag-bbc-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}