![]() “We’re learning the real stories behind early country music, punk rock and hip-hop in St. Louis community and beyond, Wanko says the museum uncovered “massive stories waiting to be told.” We aren’t often talked about as one of the first cities for music – we definitely deserve to be.”Īfter years of planning and hundreds of meetings involving artists, musicians, historians and other sources across the St. Louis has long been under-represented nationally in terms of its music heritage. Louis’ spectrum of popular music in one place, where people get a big sense of what has come out of St. Louis’ music legacy, we realized we have never done an exhibit that looked across St. “Nearly a decade ago, when (the museum) began talking about St. The exhibit chronicles the history of popular music from the dawn of recorded sound to the heyday of ragtime with Scott Joplin to the early years of world-renowned entertainer Josephine Baker, who staged dance performances on the streets near Union Station to the rock ‘n’ roll years of Chuck Berry and Ike and Tina Turner, and all the way to the turn of the 21st century when an aspiring rapper who called himself Nelly hit it big with his chart-topping “Country Grammar” debut album. Louis is unique that we are not just tied to one genre or one sound, we have been vital to just about every genre you can think of.” Josephine Baker’s dress, circa 1973 Those who came after them would never be the same. We have musicians who are not just popular in music, we have musicians who were genre-definers – people like Chuck Berry, Tina Turner and Scott Joplin – who reinvented what music meant. “This cross-section is so rich and full of stories, and you can see that in the music. Louis offers this fascinating cross-section of America in a way no other place can – we’re sort of equal parts north, south, east, west, connected in every direction by river and rail,” said Andrew Wanko, public historian and content lead for the exhibit. Tina Turner on stage in 1971 photo courtesy of Missouri History Museum Louis Sound,” a major exhibition that opens at the Missouri History Museum on Saturday, Aug. Louis Tinfoil is among the approximately 200 artifacts on display for “St. Louis journalist Thomas Mason, as well as a cornet solo of an unidentified song. Louis Tinfoil,” this oldest existing piece of American sound recording featured a reading of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Old Mother Hubbard” by St. Louis Tinfoil was recorded photo courtesy of Missouri History Museum Just months after Thomas Edison unveiled the phonograph, the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the earliest known recording of a musical performance took place in St. ![]()
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