The Stax Music Academy, a program of the Soulsville Foundation, which also operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and The Soulsville Charter School, all at the original site of Stax Records, is now searching for a dynamic new artistic director. Please read this job description carefully to find out if you have the […]
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In this week’s cover story in the international newspaper the Christian Science Monitor, writer Jessica Mendoza sets off on a cross country trip examining activism in America from 1968 through the present. In addition to visiting Los Angeles, Birmingham, Washington, D.C. and several other cities with Civil Rights history, she and a photographer/videographer spent two […]
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The Stax Music Academy is currently holding auditions for the 2018-19 SNAP! After School Program and Stax 101 beginner lessons! Any student interested in music is welcome to schedule an audition regardless of musical experience. We offer scholarships and no young person is turned away because of inability to pay tuition. Auditions are mostly for […]
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In Eugene Jarecki’s new film The King, the Stax Music Academy is featured in a scene in which they pile into Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls Royce and sing Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” in front of the house in which she was born in Memphis. TIME magazine called the students “royalty.” The film, which debuted […]
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