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The museum was proposed by members of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce in 2002 with the vision to preserve and celebrate African American music, art and culture. [8] After a task force met and conducted research to determine if the project was feasible, the project shifted over the course of ten years to focus on music exclusively.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's (CMA) campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and related activities beyond CMA's scope as simply a trade organization.
The Dominican Sisters of St. Mary in Somerset, Ohio, responded by sending four members to Nashville, where they opened an academy in 1862 specializing in music and the fine arts. Two years later, the new community witnessed the US Civil War at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864. [2]
The late, great Donny Hathaway once said in a 1973 Sun-Reporter interview that “American music is Black music.” When asked... View Article The post Museum dedicated to Black American music ...
Nearly 20 years in the making, the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee, has opened its doors. New Nashville museum memorializes Black music's 'origin story' Skip to ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Washington: D.C. 2016 [120] National Museum of African American Music: Nashville: Tennessee: 2013 [121] [d] National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: Cincinnati: Ohio: 2004 [122] National Voting Rights Museum: Selma: Alabama: 1991 [123] Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: Kansas City ...
This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
It goes without saying that music is in Nashville's DNA. And at The Tennessean, we reflect our city's most famous export with an all-star team of journalists who provide Nashville and the nation ...