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Dr. Tim Sharp signs Nashville Music Before Country at Belmont Mansion

Belmont Mansion

October 28, 2008

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Dr. Tim Sharp will be at the Belmont Mansion to signs copies of his book, Nashville Music Before Country.  Dr. Sharp is Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association and a Belmont Graduate.

Nashville is a name synonymous with music, but years before the first radio broadcast of country music from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, music and publishing were central to Nashville's self-identity. Thousands of songs flooded into the Cumberland and Tennessee River valleys from Southern Appalachia, sung by folk performers, and these songs became the foundation for the folk-hymn traditions that grew throughout Tennessee. Into this stream flowed a body of African American spirituals, gospel, and minstrel songs, and the arrival of trained German musicians brought classical styles to this gathering stream of musical confluences. Nashville Music Before Country tells the story of how music merged with education, publication, entertainment, and distribution to set the stage for a unique musical metropolis.

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  Tickets: Free. Book available for purchase.

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  Dates:
  October 28, 2008

  Times:
  Tuesday 5:00pm-7:00pm

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  Belmont Mansion

  1900 Belmont Boulevard Nashville, TN 37212

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