Opinion: Paul Young, collaboration and Three 6 Mafia
The kind of collaboration that exists in Memphis music is a model for the city
Native Memphian DJ and producer Qemist will be on the Overton Park Shell stage Thursday for Tambourine Bash. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Elizabeth Cawein
Elizabeth Cawein is the founder and director of Music Export Memphis, a nonprofit export office for Memphis music. She is an adjunct professor of Music Urbanism at Rhodes College, a programmer/DJ on WYXR 91.7 FM and a national speaker on issues of music, culture and urban development.
“All of us, together, can change the conversation from ‘Memphis is on the cusp of something’ to ‘Memphis is really doing something.’ ”
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