As the music industry has undergone a profound paradigm shift in the 21st century, it has left a lot of history behind: small labels that released seminal music, studios where those classics were recorded, sessions so significant that they established one Southern town as “the Birthplace of Country Music.” If a culture commemorates battlefields and other historical sites, why not musical landmarks? The opening chapter of this insightful book by Dahan, a scholar at Middle Tennessee State University, tells a fascinating story of how Richmond, Indiana, became a recording hub for Gennett Records, attracting artists, from Louis Armstrong to Gene Autry, before it stopped releasing new music during the Great Depression. Both Richmond and the Gennett family moved on, and the adjoining pressing plant and piano factory had been all but abandoned. Demolition and repurposing of the 25-acre property appeared all but inevitable until a local journalist began writing about the history that would be lost. Public, governmental, and Gennett descendants helped put Richmond back on the musical map, establishing a Walk of Fame, a music festival, and building restoration. The King Records label in Cincinnati and Stax in Memphis both enjoyed higher profiles, but their facilities and the neighborhoods surrounding them had suffered from blight after they closed. After facing demolition, the former has awakened the city to the significance of the label that provided a springboard for James Brown and others, while the latter has finally seen its legacy preserved in a museum. Capricorn Records in Macon, Georgia, experienced a fall almost as dramatic as its rise (with the Allman Brothers) but has seen its studio given fresh life through a university partnership. Each chapter documents years of efforts—and the passion, persistence, luck, and deep pockets of financing—that are necessary in such efforts.