Country Music Hall off Famed

The Country Music Hall off Famed and Museum , which one can translate by “Temple of famous and museum of the country” is a Institution and a Musée intended to document the history of the music Country, like honouring its most outstanding members. Located at Nashville, Tennessee, the building contains the temple of the fame, made up of commemorative plaques underlining the artists country and Western as indicated by the Country Music Association (CMA).

History

In 1961, the CMA announces the creation of the Country Music Hall off Famed . the nominated first are Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Pink and Hank Williams. Faces in low relief and a short biography of nominated appear on bronze plates. They are exposed to the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville until 1967.

In 1963, the CMA announces the construction of the Country Music Hall off Famed and Museum on the Music Row in Nashville. The same year, the Country Music Foundation (CMF) is founded to operate the museum.

The first Country Music Hall off Famed and Museum opens its doors on April 1st, 1967. In addition to operating the museum, the foundation deals with program of popular education, CMF Close , of CMF Records , the library of the CMF (1968), the historic site RCA Studio B (1977) and of the Hatch Show Print (1986). December 31st, 2000, the Country Music Hall off Famed and Museum is closed.

May 17th, 2001, the CMF opens the new site, builds at the cost of 37 million USD, with the downtown area of Nashville. Among the exposures, let us quote the Sing Me Back Home: In Journey through Country Music , a collection of recordings, instruments, costumes and photographs. The Hall off Famed Rotunda posts the plates of all the nominated ones. The Ford Theater also left the building.

The outside of the building is decorated with symbols. Most visible consists of windows which resemble black keys of Piano. A less visible symbol resembles a tower of radio transmission, pointing out a tower located a few kilometres from Nashville. The discs which surround this image symbolizes the sizes of the long-playing records and the CD, support which were used to record the country music. Seen top (), the building presents the form of a Treble clef . The north-western corner of the building points out the back of the car Chevrolet Bel Air.

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External bonds

  • Official site

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