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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Rissi Palmer, a keen student of history, had long noticed problems with the way people talked about race in country music. …

Matt Graham admits he knew little about — and didn’t even like — country music before he signed the country trio Midland in 2014. Graham had just left Scooter Braun Projects to start his own management company, BRND MGMT, and reshape his reputation as a “teen-pop guy” after working with …