| GE-235004-16 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Arkansas State University, Main Campus | Rockabilly Exhibition/Rockabilly Loop Project NEH Planning Grant 2015 | 7/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 | $39,983.00 | Marti | L. | Allen | | | | Arkansas State University, Main Campus | Jonesboro | AR | 72403-0600 | USA | 2016 | U.S. History | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Public Programs | 39983 | 0 | 37779.48 | 0 | Planning for a permanent exhibition, a traveling suitcase, and a music trail exploring Rockabilly as a representation of post-World War II American cultural change.
For this one-year project, Arkansas State University Museum seeks $40,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Planning Grant category) to refine the content, format, and interpretive approaches, develop the preliminary design, and project implementation costs for a permanent exhibition on the 1950s music genre now known as "Rockabilly", a musical form with national and global significance. The project will also plan a suitcase exhibit that focuses on kid-appropriate aspects of Rockabilly and target Pre--K-8; and, make plans and establish formats for a complementary music trail in Northeast Arkansas called the Rockabilly Loop, which will articulate with the exhibition and attract new audiences. |