A guitar is an important artifact for the homeless culture of Nashville, Tennessee because many of the homeless here are failed musicians who travelled to the “city of music” to become famous in the music industry. Other homeless people are troubadours, merely passing through town on their way to another city or searching for a way back home. Therefore, the guitar is a symbol of the struggles of the homeless population, their attempt at triumph, and their ultimate joy and suffering.
The Contributor is a respected newspaper in the homeless population of Nashville, Tennessee. The vendors sell it on street corners; each person has an official nametag, bag to hold the newspapers in, and money pouch to collect their earnings in. You may be surprised to find that all of the vendors are either homeless or formerly homeless people; they are all working to bring themselves out of poverty by having a job—selling The Contributor. This makes The Contributor a valuable artifact of the homeless culture of Nashville to study so that their strivings are understood. It is also important to note that The Contributor is a newspaper written entirely about the homeless culture in Nashville, making it all the more important to the homeless and thus those studying the homeless.
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