Museum of African American Music
- Museum of African American Music
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The Museum of African American Music is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum being built in Newark, New Jersey.[1] The museum is the center of a larger project to revitilize The Coast/Lincoln Park district in Newark. The museum will feature various genres of African-American music, including gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and hip-hop. In addition to galleries displaying audio-visual histories of the music, there will be seminars, concerts and other events scheduled at the museum, once it opens.
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Coordinates: 40°43′48″N 74°10′44″W / 40.72992°N 74.17889°W / 40.72992; -74.17889
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- Culture of Newark, New Jersey
- Proposed museums in the United States
- Music museums in the United States
- Museums in Newark, New Jersey
- Ethnic museums in New Jersey
- African American museums in New Jersey
- Smithsonian Institution affiliates
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