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Broadway is a major thoroughfare in the downtown area in Nashville, Tennessee. It includes Lower Broadway , a tourist and entertainment district renowned for honky tonks and live country music . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Broadway Historic District or Honky Tonk Highway was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County ...
The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is a museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The museum showcases the musical genres inspired, created, or influenced by African-Americans. [ 1 ] Its location at Fifth + Broadway in Downtown Nashville, as opposed to historically-Black Jefferson Street , has been controversial.
The museum is housed in a white marble building that was built in the 1930s to serve as Nashville's main post office. Designed by Marr & Holman Architects, it was built in 1933-34 for $1.5 million. [5] Its location near Union Station was convenient for mail distribution, since most mail at that time was moved by train. [6]
"Nashville: Publishing Bibles Is Big Business", Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1986; Jan Blodgett (1997). Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30395-1
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.
2nd Ave. between Brandon St. and Broadway 36°09′50″N 86°46′35″W / 36.163889°N 86.776389°W / 36.163889; -86.776389 ( Second Avenue Commercial Nashville
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It was a center for the Nashville sit-ins in the 1960s, but the construction of Interstate 40 across the street in 1968 led to its economic decline. Since 2011, Lorenzo Washington and his staff at the Jefferson Street Sound Museum, the neighborhood community music museum is conserving the [2] musical legacies of the 1940s through 1970s. [3]