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Monday, December 8, 2008

National Skyline Nashville to Get Music Commission, Maybe

Posted by Steve Haruch on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:48 PM

According to a WPLN piece that aired this morning, there is talk of establishing a Nashville music commission to "promote the industry locally and to the rest of the world." According to WPLN, Seattle will name an official music commission in January. Their cheerleader had this to say about "the city made famous by grunge": "It's culturally something we identify with. We think music makes us unique and it's something we really like about us. But we also know it's a powerhouse economically." I don't think music makes Seattle "unique," but I find this a bit funny personally, because I remember all the gnashing of teeth years ago about how touring bands used to skip Seattle (which is way more inconveniently located than our own tour-starved Nashville). Maybe we just need a music commissioner, with a red guitar-shaped phone or something. As a counterpoint, there's Austin, which has had a music commission for a decade, focusing more on internal problems like health insurance and affordable housing. I suppose having SXSW every year and Austin City Limits on TV makes promotion less necessary. My question is: Do we need a commission to "promote the industry locally"? I mean, the industry got Governor Bredesen to sign a law that forces state universities to police file-sharing. Doesn't sound like it needs much help promoting itself. Or maybe not the industry so much as music-related business. Fine. But, isn't that what the tourism board should be doing anyway?

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It doesn't really seem like the cooperate music industry in Nashville has any real interest in promoting the music of the Nashville anymore. There is a huge diverse musical community here that is almost totally ignored by the industry(or they are totally out of touch and unaware of it).
A commission that could see the value of the real musical community, and sell that to the outside world could be a good thing for Nashville musicians. Because of the tourism board most people in the U.S. think that we Nashvillians wear cowboy hats and pray to Garth Brooks shrines posted on every street corner, so fuck them too.

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Posted by Buddy on December 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM

That's because we Nashvillians do and if you don't like it Toby Keith will stick a boot up your ass, Buddy!

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Posted by cato on December 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM

Toby Keith is a different story...I said Garth Brooks, cato!

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Posted by Buddy on December 9, 2008 at 5:36 PM

Who do you think Toby prayed to before he had what he now calls a career? blech

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Posted by cato on December 9, 2008 at 7:06 PM

The comments above is why we're struggling.
With new web capabilities these days, its not that hard to form groups and get people together under a certain cause.
Bring the people together and you'll have your promotion locally and to the rest of the world on how good Nashville is for music.

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Posted by Scott on December 9, 2008 at 8:42 PM
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