‘Music defines cities:’ What a new report says about Memphis music scene
Fans watch as Jazmine Sullivan performs at Beale Street Music Festival in Tom Lee Park on Sunday, May 7, 2023. (Ziggy Mack/The Daily Memphian file)
Sound Diplomacy’s 169-page report, released Saturday, touches on some sensitive topics in the long history and heritage of Memphis music, not the least of which is the intersection of music and business.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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