Abstract:This article reconsiders the story of Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the advent of country music in the early 1950s. Closely scrutinizing the management of Lula C. Naff and her professional network, it argues that the Ryman, thanks to its diversified programming, turned into a music venue for everyone in the course of the first half of the twentieth century, despite ongoing segregation, social cleavages, and cultural parochialism. As such, the Ryman was neith… Show more
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