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The Preservation of Rock and Blues Music Sites

Chess Records 1957

Kandalyn Hahn

Tuesday, November 12, 5:45pm

The growth in popular music-centered tourism has not necessarily translated into increasingly sophisticated preservation of historic music sites. This talk looks at examples in Chicago (Chess Records, the Muddy Waters House) and elsewhere (Paul McCartney’s Childhood Home in Liverpool, the Motown Museum in Detroit) to illustrate how far the preservation of rock and blues music sites has come, and how far it has to go.

Image: Chess Records, Chicago, 1957

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Kandalyn Hahn works for the Chicago Department of Planning & Development supporting the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.

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More about our presenter

Kandalyn Hahn works for the Chicago Department of Planning & Development supporting the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.

Kandalyn Hahn earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from Amherst College and her M.A. in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University. Her master’s thesis “The Successful Preservation of Rock and Roll Music Sites: Paul McCartney's Childhood Home in Liverpool, England and the Chess Records Office and Studio in Chicago, Illinois” allowed her to combine her love of music with her commitment to historic preservation.

Kandalyn hails from Nebraska but lives in Chicago with her husband Richard Poemape, their son Julian, one cat named Otis Redding, and another named David Bowie.