MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY Center for Popular Music Annual Report 2012–2013 The mission of the Center for Popular Music is to promote research and scholarship on American vernacular music, and to foster an understanding of the nation’s diverse musical culture and its global reach. Center for Popular Music College of Mass Communication Middle Tennessee State University 140 Bragg Mass Communication Building Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132 (615) 898-2449 • FAX (615) 898-5829
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[email protected]. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY Center for Popular Music Annual Report 2012–2013 The Center for Popular Music (CPM) was established in 1985 by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission as one of sixteen designated Centers of Excellence. Its mandate was to build a research library and archive that would achieve national prominence and develop programs to support and disseminate studies in popular music. The vision was to create and maintain a world-class research center that would serve Middle Tennessee State University, the local community, the state of Tennessee, and the larger research community. The Center’s collections now document music as an aspect of American and world culture and commerce in a way that few, if any, other libraries and archives can equal.