{"id":1668,"date":"2024-10-02T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/?page_id=1668"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:00:35","slug":"story-making","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/story-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Info Text &#8211; Right Hand Column Placeholder<br \/>Refresh After Saving to Remove<\/h2>\n  <h3><strong>Story Making<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/\">Story Making<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/playlists-for-venues-on-jefferson-street\/\">Playlists for venues on Jefferson Street<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/education-and-health-in-north-nashville\/\">Education and Health in North Nashville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/the-story-of-nashville-in-civil-rights-silent-march\/\">The Story of Nashville in Civil Rights &#8211; Silent March<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/downtown-civil-rights-tour\/\">Downtown Civil Rights Tour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/jl2\/\">J&amp;L2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/richland-creek\/\">JSS Walk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/music\/\">Music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/civil-rights\/\">Civil Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/storylines\/\">Storylines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/slamstories-2026\/story-making\/a-walk-down-jefferson-street-with-jesse-boyce-and-lorenzo-washington-2015\/\">Jesse &amp; Lorenzo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n        <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/slamstories-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2020\/08\/SLaM-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n        <p>The SLaM Lab has worked with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffersonstreetsound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jefferson Street Sound Museum<\/a>\u00a0, schools in Nashville and Boston, and with community partners to engage people in making spatial stories using archival materials and situated in place. These rich stories have a palimpsestic quality that helps the story authors think about &#8220;here and then&#8221; not just &#8220;then and now&#8221; while also serving as a counter narrative to dominant or typically told narratives about history in schools.<\/p>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2026\/06\/jsstour2015-hd-picture16-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2026\/06\/story-lining-walking-map.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2026\/06\/Day-in-the-Life-task-sharing.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2026\/06\/story-lining-smartphone.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2026\/06\/jsstour2015-thmb-picture20.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>\n    <\/figure>\n    <figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/slamstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2026\/06\/jsstour2015-thmb-picture18.png\" alt=\" \" \/>\n    <\/figure>\n        <p><strong>Nashville&#8217;s Historic Jefferson Street<\/strong>\u00a0was once home to a vibrant economically successfully and socially cohesive black community.\u00a0 Beyond the three HBCU universities, an elementary and high school, innumerable business and numerous civic organizations, it also starred as Nashville&#8217;s\u00a0<em>original<\/em>\u00a0music row.\u00a0The neighborhood was home to 100&#8217;s of businesses including nightclubs and music venues from the 1930&#8217;s through the 1960&#8217;s.\u00a0 Over those years the neighborhood was visited by innumerable famous artists including Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, and Etta James among others, and it also provided venues for Nashvillians such as Jimi Hendrix, Marion James, Gene Allison, Jessie Boyce and more.\u00a0In the late 1960&#8217;s the routing of interstate I40 destroyed this music row, and many residents argue, the neighborhood and community.\u00a0 This set of interactive maps is our small attempt to document that history and give voice to people who once lived, worked, and played there.\u00a0Use the navigation menu at the top of the page to see pointers to some of the music and civil rights history, and visit the Storylines item to see some personal stories from past and present residents of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n <!-- rich-text -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info Text &#8211; 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