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We attended a Profs & Pints event in the past and it was fascinating!
Topic: How Nashville Became Music City
Can't wait to hear what we learn this time!
TICKETS:
If you're interested in attending, I suggest you get your ticket now!
Advance tickets: $14.77 total.
Available at Talks | Nashville | Profs and Pints
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ABOUT Profs & Pints:
Do you love to learn? Would you enjoy hearing scholars discuss fascinating topics in a setting where you can ask questions and be around people who share your interests? Profs and Pints is here for you!
Profs and Pints brings college faculty members into bars, cafés, company offices, and other off-campus venues to share their knowledge. They speak on subjects of broad interest, including local history, their region’s environment, emerging trends in business or politics, and the ideas and innovations transforming our society and culture. In addition, Profs and Pints instructors offer practical instruction that improves lives. They can teach skills such as how to write persuasively, plant a garden, tend to mind and body, or plan for retirement. Profs and Pints offers you all of this without asking that
you apply for admission, pay steep tuition, or worry about quizzes or grades. At most, you might need to buy a modestly priced ticket to get in the door. Depending on where the event is staged, you may be able to order tasty beers, delicious meals, or hot espresso to go with all of
that knowledge you’ll take in. You won’t earn college credits but you’ll leave knowing more. Learning with Profs and Pints: It’s a bright idea.
ABOUT the talk:
Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.
Nashville residents and tourists alike long have flocked to the city because of its thriving music scene and music-focused identity.
Come learn about the key players that transformed Nashville into a music destination with Robert Fry, a Vanderbilt musicologist who wrote a book on music throughout the city. He’ll draw upon his archival and ethnographic research as well as courses taught on subjects such as jazz, blues, country, American popular music, music in the South, music tourism, and DIY music cultures. He’ll explore the development of Nashville's broadcasting, recording, and tourism industries, as well as the city's adoption and promotion of its Music City identity.
You’ll learn about the musical institutions and spaces that put Nashville on music’s map as well as the what makes the city unique among other music destinations. We’ll talk about how Nashville's musical identity has been changing in the 21st century and how the city has been adapting to these shifts. We’ll examine how the city's identity is being reinforced through immersive experiences on and near lower Broadway. We’ll also consider how fans have shaped the city and its experiences and helped save Nashville and its music following the flood of 2010. Fry will offer a provocative proposal calling for fans to begin seeing themselves as locals so that they can move beyond passive roles as spectator to become more involved in the preservation and production of music here. You'll leave it with a heightened appreciation of the city all around you and a better understanding of how to take it all in.
LOCATION:
Fait la Force Brewing
1414 3rd Ave S St101
Nashville, TN 37210