Why is the African American Music museum in Nashville?
Plus, more questions about Memphis music and the January playlist
Elizabeth Cawein
Elizabeth Cawein is the founder and director of Music Export Memphis, which leverages public and private support to function as an export office for Memphis music. She is also an adjunct professor of music publicity at the University of Memphis, and in 2019 will teach a new course she developed on Music Urbanism at Rhodes College.
The answer is simple and it also stings. It’s in Nashville because Nashville asked for it.
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