Plateau Magazine June-July 2023
This issue we feature women entrepreneurs with locally run businesses and cowgirls who are protecting local animals. We also highlight protecting the land and fields that are important for bees and butterflies pollination. And for the foodies, check out our feature on the Highlands Tavern. Get outdoors with this issue, with our interview on legendary hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis.
This issue we feature women entrepreneurs with locally run businesses and cowgirls who are protecting local animals. We also highlight protecting the land and fields that are important for bees and butterflies pollination. And for the foodies, check out our feature on the Highlands Tavern. Get outdoors with this issue, with our interview on legendary hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis.
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The Country Music<br />
Hall of Fame and<br />
Museum<br />
Musically Inclined<br />
The perfect weekend in Nashville<br />
By KATIE MCELVEEN<br />
Before I visited Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, I imagined<br />
some sort of rhinestone-paved Yellow Brick Road studded with life-sized figures of Johnny Cash,<br />
Taylor Swift and other country music legends, all clad in authentic stage costumes. There would,<br />
of course, be music blaring in the background.<br />
That assumption ended the moment I stepped into the guitarshaped<br />
building, where I discovered a multi-sensory experience<br />
that utilized photos, videos, artifacts and even wonderfully huge<br />
wall-mounted diagrams to trace the origin of country music from<br />
its 18th-century roots (really!) to the present.<br />
I had no idea, for instance, that it was Hollywood that added<br />
the Western component to country music or that cross pollination<br />
between country and rock artists started in the late 1950s,<br />
not the 1970s as I’d thought. I left the museum with tremendous<br />
appreciation and admiration of the talent and innovation of country<br />
music’s artists and songwriters. Oh, and I was humming, too.<br />
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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum isn’t Nashville’s<br />
only museum devoted to music. There’s also the Musicians Hall<br />
of Fame & Museum, which pays tribute to the musicians who<br />
played on famous recordings; RCA Studio B and museums devoted<br />
to Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline<br />
and George Strait. The newest entry is the National Museum of<br />
African American Music, which opened in 2021 and looks deeply<br />
into the 400-year evolution of Black music in America.<br />
We started in the Roots Theater, where a film sets the stage for<br />
the experience, linking Black music to the arc of history. From<br />
there, galleries use photos, videos and artifacts to take a deep
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