October Playlist: Hoops and tunes
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.
It’s not an accident that our sports teams have invested in music. We’re a hoops city, and we’re a music city. In the metaphorical fabric of Memphis, those two threads are intertwined. File under: Things that Define Us.
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