Pardon the Interruption...

Compact shelving process: End of day, Tuesday, August 10th.
Reshelving of collections in progress. 2nd range of 78s.
Now we have plenty of room for collection growth!

Our new compact shelving is installed!

That's great for us, but it may be bad for you.
Unfortunately, the Center’s
Special Collections
are
TEMPORARILY INACCESSIBLE.
 
Many items from our collections have been stored in temporary locations and must now be retrieved and relocated to their new homes. In order to expedite this process,
The Center will be
 
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
August 9 – 13, 2010.
 
 
 
 
Please check our website for any additional updates to this schedule. We hope to have all collections once again available for use by Monday, August 16th. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Welcome

The Center for Popular Music is an archive and research center devoted to the study of American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present.  It was established in 1985 as one of the sixteen Centers of Excellence at universities in the Tennessee Board of Regents system. 

The Center's mission is to promote research and scholarship in American vernacular music, and to foster an understanding and appreciation of American's diverse musical culture.  To carry out this mission, the Center: 

  maintains a large research library and archive; 
  presents public programs that interpret various aspects of American vernacular music; 
  engages in original research projects; 
  disseminates the results of research via publications in various media. 

More information about the history and development of the Center can be found in an extensive article about the Center that appeared in the June, 1998 issue of Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.