CITY SONGS

City Songs: Knoxville is a community engagement project launched in 2022, originally in collaboration with New Orleans-based artists Aurora Nealand and Jebney Lewis. Each year, young writers and musicians from across Knoxville work with beat-makers, improvisers, and composers to create new music rooted in their personal stories and specific places around the city. The final product is a story and sound map of Knoxville which you can explore below.

If you’re having trouble viewing the embedded story below, click here to open our story map in a new browser window.

This project was supported in part by the Hobson Wood Foundation, the Aslan Foundation, the City of Knoxville, and a Presentation Grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission.