Abstract
Nashville’s places of performance, production, and preservation create a narrative that connects the history of country music with the current industry that is occurring outside of museum and venue walls. This chapter will explore and comment on the continued dialogue between dualities: past/present, backstage/frontstage, and real/fabricated, illustrating that the manifestation of Nashville as a Music City is not based in the complete story, but instead the story which is told. By exploring what has been added to the tourist narrative and what has been eliminated, Nashville as space to perform the imagined becomes clear, highlighting the hyperreal production and presentation of the country-music tradition.
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Fry, R.W. (2017). The New Nashville: Reimagined, Revised, Retold. In: Performing Nashville. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50482-1_7
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