GA-276361-20 | Public Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs) | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Country Music Collections and Interpretation Remote Access Project | 6/15/2020 - 2/28/2021 | $200,000.00 | Brenda | | Colladay | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Nashville | TN | 37203-4206 | USA | 2020 | U.S. History | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs) | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | Retention of thirteen staff members and two consultants to create two online exhibits and digitize additional archival materials.
This Country Music Collections and Interpretation Remote Access Project will, for the first time, allow the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to curate and present, at no cost to the public, two major multimedia exhibits on the Museum's website, and to add more than 300 seminal collection objects to its Digital Archive, while ensuring retention for staff assigned to the project. |
PA-23698-01 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Processing and Preserving Audio Tapes Related to the History of Country Music, 1920 to 1990 | 7/1/2001 - 6/30/2008 | $213,475.00 | John | W. | Rumble | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Nashville | TN | 37203-4206 | USA | 2001 | Music History and Criticism | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 213475 | 0 | 213475 | 0 | The arrangement, description, transcription, and preservation of 1,350 hours of audiotapes of 588 oral history interviews with performers, songwriters, and others in the country music business, dating from the 1920s to the 1990s. |
PG-52093-13 | Preservation and Access: Preservation Assistance Grants | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Preservation of the Country Music Foundation Fabry Collection | 1/1/2013 - 6/30/2014 | $5,971.00 | Lee | | Boulie | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Nashville | TN | 37203-4206 | USA | 2012 | Archival Management and Conservation | Preservation Assistance Grants | Preservation and Access | 5971 | 0 | 5971 | 0 | The purchase of archival quality rehousing supplies for the 6,190 large-format still image portraits retained in the Fabry collection that document approximately 600 country music artists and changes in their instruments and costumes from the 1940s to 1960s. The Fabry photographs capture the development of artists over time, revealing and documenting cultural changes in make-up, hairstyles, and positioning indicative of the powerful marketing and promotional tools typical of the entertainment industry. The images provide a glimpse into major celebrities such as Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Roy Orbison, as well as lesser-known artists. The corpus is used in research, education, publications, and documentaries.
The Country Music Foundation, Inc. requests a Preservation Assistance Grant to fund the purchase of preservation supplies needed to rehouse a collection of large format negatives in the photo collection. The Fabry Collection is a collection of images taken by photographer Walden S. Fabry, who ran a photo studio in Nashville that catered to country music artists during the late 1940s through the early 1960s. |
PW-253878-17 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Audio Tape Collection Preservation and Digitization Project | 5/1/2017 - 4/30/2021 | $150,999.00 | Brenda | | Colladay | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Nashville | TN | 37203-4206 | USA | 2017 | Music History and Criticism | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 150999 | 0 | 135882 | 0 | The
assessment and digitization of 4,500 hours of audio recordings that trace the
history and development of country and American vernacular music.
The Country Music Hall of Fame
and Museum (CMHFM) seeks support through the National Endowment for the
Humanities’ Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program to assess
the contents of its quarter-inch audio tape collection, and to digitize and
make publicly accessible 4,500 hours of rare, fragile, and valuable recordings
from this collection. This audio tape digitization project builds on the
Museum's successful digitization of acetate transcription discs, complementing
that collection with new commercial, demo, broadcast, and performance
recordings that trace the history and evolution of country and American
vernacular music. This pilot project will assess the full audio tape collection
of 21,632 quarter-inch reels and digitize nearly 10% of the collection for
preservation and public access. The project will also make a significant
selection of previously-unavailable recordings accessible for humanities
research through digital access and cataloging and finding aids. |
PW-51496-13 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Preservation and Access: Digitizing Rare and Fragile Components of the Country Music Foundation Archive | 10/1/2013 - 12/31/2015 | $280,000.00 | Lee | | Boulie | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Nashville | TN | 37203-4206 | USA | 2013 | Music History and Criticism | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 280000 | 0 | 280000 | 0 | The preservation and provision of intellectual access to three collections documenting the history of country music in America: 1) Bob Pinson Recorded Sound Collection, 2) Moving Image Collection: Bobby Bare and Friends, and 3) Photo Collection: Fabry Still Image Collection.
The Country Music Foundation (CMF) requests a grant of $347,132 over a two-year period. The purpose of the project is to preserve and increase access to three rare and endangered collections integral to the history of country music in America. This project is a critical step in a major digitization initiative to preserve museum collections and access them through a digital asset management system. Once transferred, the original source materials from this project will be stored according to best practices for conservation in climate-controlled vaults currently under construction. Three collections have been selected by as the first and most urgent collections for digitization based on their rarity, fragility, number of access requests, and historical importance: Bob Pinson Recorded Sound Collection--Rare and unique acetate and vinyl transcriptions discs; Moving Image Collection--Bobby Bare and Friends; and Photo Collection--Fabry Image Collection. |
ZPP-283756-22 | Agency-wide Projects: ARP-Organizations (Public-related) | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970 Online Exhibit | 12/1/2021 - 3/31/2023 | $199,710.00 | Brenda | | Colladay | | | | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Nashville | TN | 37203-4206 | USA | 2021 | U.S. History | ARP-Organizations (Public-related) | Agency-wide Projects | 199710 | 0 | 199710 | 0 | Creation of an online exhibition focusing on Black musicians’ contributions to Nashville music from 1945 to 1970.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will create and launch an online version of its award-winning past exhibition Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970, a major exhibit focusing on the impact of black musician’s contributions to Nashville becoming known as “Music City.” Though largely obscured, Nashville’s vibrant, pioneering R&B activity in the decades following World War II played a significant role in building Nashville’s worldwide reputation as a major music and creative hub. This online exhibit will allow the museum to continue to sustain its mission and reach larger and more diverse audiences through the delivery of free, engaging digital content. |