College of Media and Entertainment student and aspiring country music artist Hunter Wolkonowski of Winchester, Tennessee, knew that singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea was coming to give a guest lecture in late November.

MTSU’s Center for Popular Music is the recipient of another national grant from the Grammy Foundation, this time to digitize an extensive, “historically and culturally significant” live bluegrass audio collection from Indiana music lover Marvin Hedrick.

The Center for Popular Music will explore the music by Appalachian women when a Feb. 11 lecture, postponed because of weather, is rescheduled.

The newest release from Spring Fed Records is a set of home recordings made by music icon banjoist John Hartford and fiddling legend Howdy Forrester.

Legendary songwriter Lamont Dozier took an audience of all ages on a trip down Motown memory lane on Oct. 21 on a small stage in the James Union Building. As part of the iconic trio Holland-Dozier-Holland, Dozier co-wrote dozens of No. 1 hits that defined an era, including “Nowhere to Run” by Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, “Stop […]

The Center for Popular Music announced on March 18 the launch of its American Vernacular Music Manuscripts (AVMM) website.

The Center for Popular Music has acquired another priceless set of recordings that preserve the musical offerings of the U.S. South.