The queen of hip-hop, Missy Elliott; the prince of soul, Marvin Gaye; and the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, have all influenced artists across genres for decades. Now, their careers are on display at the new National Museum of African American Music in downtown Nashville.
The museum, which opens Monday, “walks through the history of American music … told through an African American prism,” president and CEO H. Beecher Hicks told “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason.
“Everything from slave songs to hip-hop and everything in between,” Hicks said. “And so, really all of that is American music, and that’s what we celebrate in the museum.”
That theme is woven through the museum’s seven galleries, including One Nation Under a Groove that documents the emergence of rhythm and blues after World War II amid the Civil Rights Movement.
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