Free Feb. 12 talk on Nashville's record industry

Music journalist Craig Havighurst will be a featured guest speaker beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at Middle Tennessee State University, where he'll present his Music City Remixed series.

Free and open to the public, the six-part series will focus on the recording industry, and in particular, Nashville's Music Row, and the historic changes buffering the music industry, especially in regard to the city's country music industry.

Last fall, Havighurst reported and produced the series for Nashville Public Radio. During his upcoming MTSU visit, Havighurst will present the documentary report, which has a run time of about 30 minutes, and then participate in open discussion, including Q&A, moderated by Michael Fleming, assistant professor of audio production at MTSU.

Havighurst's participation in the community series is sponsored by the MTSU Audio Engineering Society, a group that comprises students enrolled in the Department of Recording Industry at the nearby Murfreesboro university.

Based in Nashville, Havighurst is an independent journalist and producer who has won awards for his work in print, radio and television. He's a regular public radio contributor on Nashville's WPLN and specializes in music documentaries through his company, String Theory Media.

From 2000 and 2004, Havighurst was a staff writer covering music and the music business for The Tennessean, where his feature writing was recognized with the 2004 Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism. Havighurst also is the author of Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, which was published in fall 2007 by the University of Illinois Press.

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