NASHVILLE — The incoming
dean of MTSU’s College of Mass Communication, Ken Paulson, played a key role in
the development of the new Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame that will be
unveiled Sunday.
Paulson, vice chair of the songwriters’ hall, oversaw the content development
for the 10-by-50-foot interactive display within the Music City Center, the new
2.1 million-square-foot conference and event facility in downtown Nashville.
“The members of the Hall made Music City possible and it’s time they were
given their due,” said Paulson, a former president of the Newseum, the Washington,
D.C., museum devoted to the history of news.
The display features three handicap-accessible computers with interactive
touch screens. Visitors can call up digital exhibits of each of the 188 hall
inductees, along with song clips, videos, lyric sheets and photos. The wall
also includes display cases for the Hall’s memorabilia, including a pair of
boots from legendary songwriter and singer Johnny Cash on loan from Paulson.
A nearby outside area, called Songwriters Square, features inlaid stones
engraved with the names of the inductees, the year they were honored and their
songs. Paulson said the Hall plans to stage songwriter events in the square.
Also, the stairs leading into the building are engraved with the song titles of
the Hall’s members.
The Tennessean featured
Paulson and songwriter Pat Alger, the Hall’s chair, in a blog post and video on
its website Sunday that previews the new display: http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2013/05/18/songwriters-hall-of-fame-exhibition-opens-in-music-city-center/
Paulson, president and chief executive officer of the First
Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, will assume leadership
of the MTSU College of Mass Communication on July 1. He replaces Roy Moore,
dean of the college since 2008, who will remain with the college as a
professor.
MTSU boasts the fifth largest mass communication college in the
nation and is the only one that features departments of recording industry,
journalism and electronic media communication. It also is home to the Center
for Popular Music, which maintains a large research library and archive and
interprets various aspects of American vernacular music.
A
member of The Recording Academy and a former music journalist, Paulson is also
a member of the Music City Music Council, convened by Nashville Mayor Karl
Dean; and a Leadership Music board and executive committee member.
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