MURFREESBORO — Music producer, historian and educator Jerry Zolten will link artists
like Uncle Dave Macon and Bill Monroe to musicians like Elvis Presley and his
contemporaries in a special lecture, “From Hillbilly to Rockabilly: The Country
Roots of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Friday, Nov. 21, at MTSU’s Center for Popular Music.
The free public
lecture is set from 11 a.m. to noon in the center’s reading room, located in
Room 140 of MTSU’s Bragg Mass Communication Building.
A searchable
campus map with parking notes is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Zolten, producer
of the Grammy-winning Fairfield Four and author of “Great God A’Mighty! The
Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music,” is an associate
professor of communication arts and sciences and American studies at the Pennsylvania
State University at Altoona.
Among
his specialties is American roots music, which also is a specialty of MTSU’s Center for Popular Music.
The center, established in 1985 by the Tennessee Board of
Regents as one of 16 Centers of Excellence across the TBR system, is devoted to
the study and scholarship of popular music in America.
Its staff maintains a unique archive of research materials
that spans shaped-note songbooks to hip-hop mash-ups in a collection stretching
from the early 18th century to the present.
The Center for Popular Music also develops and sponsors
programs in American vernacular music and regularly presents special concerts,
lectures and events for the campus community.
Zolten’s Nov. 21 MTSU talk will include historic
performance clips of artists such as Jimmie Rodgers, Macon and Monroe and show
how they pointed the way to supercharged rockers such as Presley, Carl Perkins
and the like.
Zolten also is set to present the lecture at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in downtown
Nashville. That talk will be included in the $24.95 museum admission price.
For more
information on the Nov. 21 lecture at MTSU, email the Center for Popular Music
at popular.music@mtsu.edu.
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