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4:12 pm UTC Feb. 16, 2021 Country music trailblazer Charley Pride Photo: Ricky Rogers, The Tennessean, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network Enable the ambient audio feature Enable the ambient audio feature This audio enhanced story is best with headphones. Turn audio on Turn audio off As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. Intertwining Black and white communities shaped country music. Decades before Ente...

From DeFord Bailey to Mickey Guyton, these Black artist have shaped country music for nearly a century.

NMAAM’s Celebration of Black Art Should Be a Call to Action for Country Music The stories of co-opted Black musicians show everyone what needs to change with Music City’s biggest cultural export Tweet Photo: Daniel Meigs After touring the National Museum of African American Music during a pre-opening press day, I stopped Henry Beecher Hicks III, the museum’s president and CEO, on my way out the door. I smiled and told him that I loved it — that the museum exceeded every one of my expectations. As someone who fashions words into sentences and paragra...

Mary Megan Peer She is the fourth CEO of the independent publisher and the second woman to hold the role. Peermusic is entering a new era. In a shift that will represent the third generation of leadership of the family-owned music publishing company, Mary Megan Peer will succeed her father Ralph Peer II as CEO, it was announced Thursday (Dec. 10). Ralph Peer II will now become executive chair of the board. The privately-owned peermusic was founded in 1927 by Ralph. S Peer, Ralph Peer II's father and Mary Megan Peer’s grandfather. Today, it has a global presence in 32 countries and a cata...