A group of Black college students who emerged Tuesday morning from a 90-minute conversation about songwriting with emerging star Joy Oladokun at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum could represent the future of Nashville’s music industry.
After an unprecedented, immersive, three-week course of study, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) students, may be uniquely poised for immediate, game-changing success in the music business.
Historically, predominantly white-populated Music City-area universities, including Belmont and Middle Tennessee State, have developed many vaunted industry professionals via their Music Industry programs. However, in the wake of social justice and institutional change invigorated by the Black Lives Matter movement, depth and scope — via reparational equity — have been added to the conversation.
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