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History will speak. This is also a history-will-speak kind of question. There are seven subjects in the new book; seven white guys. In the introduction, you acknowledge that performers of color and women performers are just not in your zeitgeist. Which to my mind is not plausible for Jann Wenner. Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, the list keeps going — not in your zeitgeist? What do you think is the deeper explanation for why you interviewed the subjects you interviewed and not other subjects? Well, let me just. …

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History will speak. This is also a history-will-speak kind of question. There are seven subjects in the new book; seven white guys. In the introduction, you acknowledge that performers of color and women performers are just not in your zeitgeist. Which to my mind is not plausible for Jann Wenner. Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, the list keeps going — not in your zeitgeist? What do you think is the deeper explanation for why you interviewed the subjects you interviewed and not other subjects? Well, let me just. …
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unicorndeburgh (unicorndeburgh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 03:23:51 JST unicorndeburgh

Jenn Wenner of Rolling Stone wrote a book, profiling 7 musicians -- all white men. In an interview by David Marchese about the book, Wenner defends this saying that there weren't any women or Black men who were "articulate enough on this intellectual level."
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