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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 America'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.

If this is your first visit to our website, please browse the selections at left to discover what we have to offer. If you are a return visitor you may want to go directly to the database catalogs to search our special collections:

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Center for Popular Music
 
P.O. Box 41
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
 
615-898-2449
615-898-5829 (fax)
ctrpopmu@mtsu.edu
 
Room 140, Bragg Mass Communications Bldg.