1. Building Music City, USA: Nashville
Leonard Nevarez
Intro to Urban Studies
March 2, 2017

2. Billboard Country Radio Music Chart

3. What makes up a music recording industry?

4. What makes up a music recording industry?
Creative talent: singers, songwriters, musicians (and their managers/agents)
Technical talent: studio engineers, recording producers, live sound technicans, people who sell/fix instruments
Record business: publishing houses, record companies, booking agents, trade associations
Publicity and distribution: music press, radio corporations, licensing agencies, independent promoters

5. What makes up a music recording industry?
Recording infrastructure: recording studios, mastering facilities, rehearsal spaces, instrument/equipment rentals/vendors
Declining sectors: sheet music publishers record pressing plants, music retail entities
Ascendant sectors: touring/venue management, merchandising, music technology

6. Industry agglomeration: music corporations & infrastructure
Music Row in Nashville

7. Industry agglomeration: creative talent
Richard Florida, “The Nashville Effect”

8. Industry agglomeration: creative talent
Richard Florida, “The Nashville Effect”
How do country music talent “use” the city?

9. Legacy and Scene: Robert’s Western World (Lower Broadway)

10. ICON: Nashville’s Hippest Urban Condo
Urban branding
ICON: Nashville’s Hippest Urban Condo

11. Scene: East Nashville
Tomato Art Fest

12. CMA Fest