Music Row is a historic district located southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Widely considered the heart of Nashville's entertainment industry, Music Row has also become a metonymous nickname for the music industry as a whole, particularly in country music, gospel music, and contemporary Christian music.
The district is centered on 16th and 17th Avenues South (called Music Square East and Music Square West, respectively, within the Music Row area), along with several side streets.[1] Lacy J. Dalton had a hit song in the 1980s about 16th Avenue, while the area served as namesake to Dolly Parton's 1973 composition "Down on Music Row". In 1999, the song "Murder on Music Row" was released and gained fame when it was recorded by George Strait and Alan Jackson, lamenting the rise of country pop and the accompanying decline of the traditional country music sound.[2][3]
The area hosts the offices of numerous record labels, publishing houses, music licensing firms, recording studios, video production houses, along with other businesses that serve the music industry, as well as radio networks, and radio stations. MusicRow Magazine has reported on the music industry since 1981.[4]
In present years, the district has been marked for extensive historical preservation and local as well as national movements to revive its rich and vibrant history. A group dedicated to this mission is the Music Industry Coalition.[5][6][7]
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^“Murder On Music Row” and McCourys Rake In Bluegrass Hardware
^Alan Jackson gives Nashville the finger
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^Rau, Nate (November 21, 2016). "Music Row preservation takes major step forward". The Tennessean. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
^"Nashville's Music Row". National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
^Sisson, Patrick (May 2, 2016). "To Honor Nashville's Music Row, Entire District Submitted for Historic Recognition". Curbed.com. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
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