Dear readers all around the world,
Our last days in Cincinnati have started and we are already preparing for our last destination in the US: New York.
Yesterday we spent the whole day travelling to Cleveland, visiting a museum and going back to Cincinnati. There, in Cleveland, we visited the Rock 'n Roll Hall of fame, which is really closely located to the Great Lake Erie.
The museum didn't meet my expectations, because I hoped to get more information about the life and motivations of all this music stars. During our walk through the exhibition, we could just view clothes of the musicians, their instruments, notes and some other things. For deeper research, there were possibilities to watch movies, for example, about the Woodstock festival, and to listen to music on music stations with touchscreen. In contrast to the Freedom Center, this exhibition didn't go under my skin. The atmosphere, shown there, is similar to normal museums.
It is a pity, that all music styles were mixed up and so you were confused by lots of stimuli. At the beginning of the exhibition, the visitor saw key periods of music history and the local center of it in the vitrine.
Music takes a high position in America. If we take a look to German, almost every announced music comes from North America. All past decades brought out new stars, who were the starters of something completely new. Furthermore, music can be seen as something holy. This is the reason, why musicians are ranked to get a place in this museum. Not understandable is the late admission of Metallica in the year 2009. Due to high occurence of Rock n' Roll stars, the Hall of Fame wants to give an overview of all artists. This means that a normal visitor won't find so much information about his favorite bands.
Rock n' Roll stars keep still famous despite their sometimes negative behaviors, because they have changed the music in it's core and they are often loved by girls. They stand under high pressure by record companies and work physically hard. Before these celebreties got popular, they were often outsiders or had a bad childhood, for instance Michael Jackson. This caused psychological problems for them. With being in the spotlight of the media, they didn't come along.
Our trip reminded me of listening to in the meantime forgotten bands like Queen, Doors and many more.
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I found your comment about music being "holy" to be very interesting, especially in light of our discussion about religion in America. Many people in this country often talk about music as a kind of religion.
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