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NewsChannel 5 reports on Dolly Parton artifacts at the CPM

On August 31, NewsChannel5 Nashville visited the Center for Popular Music and interviewed our director, Charlie Dahan, about our efforts to preserve Dolly Parton’s musical legacy.
They spotlighted several Parton-related artifacts in our collection, including manuscript tapes, sound recordings, and sheet music. You can watch the video of their coverage at this link.

Maximum Rocknroll Collection Arrives

The Maximum Rocknroll archive, long associated with the influential underground punk magazine of the same name, has been relocated from California to Murfreesboro and is now housed inside the Center for Popular Music within MTSU’s Scott Borchetta College of Media and Entertainment. The massive archive includes more than 50,000 vinyl records along with business papers and other ephemera documenting punk’s evolution. Read more here: https://mtsunews.com/maximum-rocknroll-punk-archive-delivered/