Nashville Music Before Country - Paperback

by Timothy W. Sharp (Author)

Nashville is a name synonymous with music. Years before the first radio broadcast of country music from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, music and publishing were central to Nashville's self-identity. Thousands of songs flooded into the Cumberland and

Author Biography

Author Tim Sharp holds the Elizabeth G. Daughdrill Chair in Fine Art at Rhodes College, Memphis, where he is the dean of fine arts, directs the Center for Outreach in the Development of the Arts, and conducts the Rhodes Singers and Master Singers Chorale. Dr. Sharp is a life fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he continues his research on the life and music of German Moravians.