Abstract
Temporary exhibition, Oct. 11, 2002-April 10, 2003. 4,000 sq. ft. Michael Gray, curator; Carolyn Tate, designer; Justine Gregory, education head. Curator's tours, “Show and Tell: Creating Exhibits” family workshop, Vince Gill instrumental demonstration. Internet: visitors' guide, news archive and exhibit information, educational programs, historical timeline and articles, hall of fame members, audio and video clips <http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/index.html> (Nov. 30, 2002). As the stars of country music are fond of saying, they owe it all to their fans. The same is true of the new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which must support itself essentially by packaging country music history in various formats and selling it to the genre's fans. But since it moved to a new $37 million building in downtown Nashville, the museum's necessary commercialism has led academic historians of popular music to worry that it may abandon its historical mission to focus on the more...
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