Preview: "Making Noise" from WPLN and WNXP

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Nashville Public Radio

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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"Making Noise" is a four-part series by WPLN and WNXP about how the music promotion company Lovenoise has changed the music landscape of Nashville. The best way to listen is to subscribe to the WNXP Podcasts feed.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Maraba here. I'm deep into working on my next podcast series, but I wanted to let you know about some great work coming from my colleagues this month. It's called Making Noise, and it's by our senior music writer, Julie Height. You're going to be able to find it in the new podcast feed of Nashville Public Radio's Music Station, so you can find it by searching
0:22.9	for WNXP podcasts. So what's it about? Well, here's a sneak peek. Music City had always had one identity.
0:31.4	From Nashville, Tennessee, the country music capital of the world, the grand old opera.
0:38.3	Even though by the mid-2000s, that didn't represent a lot of people who lived here.
0:43.3	Nashville is a tale of two cities.
0:46.3	Everybody in their mama could tell you what wasn't happening in Nashville.
0:51.3	It wasn't paying attention to its black audience and music scene, and in some cases
0:56.3	actively dismantling them. I think the black community pretty much was left out of that whole
1:01.2	process until a group of guys got together to change that. L-O-V-E, Nashville, Tennessee. In 2002, here in Nashville, Tennessee,
1:11.6	five guys got together, they had an idea.
1:16.6	$5, no dress coat.
1:18.6	Young, cool college students.
1:19.6	Free food.
1:20.6	DJ on the soul deck, old school hip-hop, neo soul.
1:23.6	A party every Sunday.
1:25.6	People love it.
1:26.6	But it was also more than just a party.
1:28.3	It's a safe space for black culture.
1:30.3	It was a gathering space in Nashville for those who didn't have a space.
1:33.9	I'm a black woman in Nashville in general, and a lot of the times we aren't taken seriously.
1:38.6	So to have him being like, okay, I really respect love noise for that.
1:43.2	We needed a place to go that we could commiserate with people who recognize what we were going through.
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