On Tuesday we visited the world famous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a really nice building, and it's placed straight in front of the lake, so it's the perfect place for a museum. The exhibition starts in the basement of the building and during the exhibition you come to the top floor. The museum's theme is music, so there was much music and media stuff. First you see a movie about the roots of Rock and Roll Music, so Blues and things like that. After that there is a movie shown where you learn manz things about the history of the music. There are also many clips from artists, like Madonna, Jackson 5, Kurt Cobain, and many more. One big exhibit is about the artist's clothes. I don't like it very much because I don't care for their clothing I just want to listen to their music. Although, it's very funny to see what silly clothes they had. I think the nicest exhibit was a music player, where you were able to decide which music you to hear. They showed you which music was similar to this song, and so you got to know the roots of the music! All in all, it met my expectations for what a museum for music should look like because in a museum with a topic like music, there should be much media. People don't expect to read much when they want to get to know something about music. You have to hear the music because it's made for it, and not for reading!
I think that there were more exhibits about the beginning of the Rock and Roll music. The biggest part of the museum was about the music in the 60s and 70s, so about The Beatles, Elvis, ... There were less to no exhibits about music from the 90s. I think that they dicided this way because music of the 90s is not really far away and it's still played in the radio, so they don't want to remind people to that music in a museum. I think that they wanted to show what the roots of the Rock and Roll music are. The audience is told that the early artists were inspired by the afro-american music, so Blues and parts of Jazz. The artists were pioneers in the U.S. because black people weren't equal in the 50s. They helped them to become equal by making their music popular! Music is always one chance to show the problems of the society. The artists can remind people on bad situations, and so they can let people do something against it, and it changed definitively. Today, most people like songs by black artists and black people are equal to white people in the United States. That's another point why there are less exhibits from the 80s and 90s because the role of music changed in the years. I think that the designers of the museum wanted to show the role of Rock and Roll music in the American History, and it played a main role in the 60s where black people got equal. I think it plays a small role today, although many artists make songs in which they accuse the government, some countries or something else for doing bad things.
Many musicians are portrayed as heroes in society despite their negative and harmful behavior. I think that many people just like their music, and they don't care for their behavior. In the television and radio everybody gets to know that the musicians are rich, have lots of fun, travel around the world, and have sex the whole day, so everybody want to be like them. That's the thing why they are heroes for many people. They live the life that many people want to live, and if you see so many good things, you don't care for the bad things. The people don't want to see the bad things happening to their artists, and the bad things their artists do. They make a hero out of them, and a hero is allowed to do everything in their eyes.
I think that there were more exhibits about the beginning of the Rock and Roll music. The biggest part of the museum was about the music in the 60s and 70s, so about The Beatles, Elvis, ... There were less to no exhibits about music from the 90s. I think that they dicided this way because music of the 90s is not really far away and it's still played in the radio, so they don't want to remind people to that music in a museum. I think that they wanted to show what the roots of the Rock and Roll music are. The audience is told that the early artists were inspired by the afro-american music, so Blues and parts of Jazz. The artists were pioneers in the U.S. because black people weren't equal in the 50s. They helped them to become equal by making their music popular! Music is always one chance to show the problems of the society. The artists can remind people on bad situations, and so they can let people do something against it, and it changed definitively. Today, most people like songs by black artists and black people are equal to white people in the United States. That's another point why there are less exhibits from the 80s and 90s because the role of music changed in the years. I think that the designers of the museum wanted to show the role of Rock and Roll music in the American History, and it played a main role in the 60s where black people got equal. I think it plays a small role today, although many artists make songs in which they accuse the government, some countries or something else for doing bad things.
Many musicians are portrayed as heroes in society despite their negative and harmful behavior. I think that many people just like their music, and they don't care for their behavior. In the television and radio everybody gets to know that the musicians are rich, have lots of fun, travel around the world, and have sex the whole day, so everybody want to be like them. That's the thing why they are heroes for many people. They live the life that many people want to live, and if you see so many good things, you don't care for the bad things. The people don't want to see the bad things happening to their artists, and the bad things their artists do. They make a hero out of them, and a hero is allowed to do everything in their eyes.
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