National Museum of African American Music

Much of African American music is borne of hardship and heartache, from slavery and Jim Crow to civil rights struggles and police violence.

Despite those deep and difficult roots, I couldn’t help but clap and tap my way through much of the new National Museum of African American Music, an expansive site set to an infectious soundtrack.

The museum, which opened last month in Nashville, is a history museum disguised as a cultural site. The music showcased here was largely developed as a response to the many challenges facing African Americans over centuries, from the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter.

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