Displaying the Guitar: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum of Pop Culture
2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19401159.2017.1341368
ISSN1940-1167
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Musicological Studies
ResumoIn this essay, I look closely at two museum sites, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Rock Hall) in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, in the context of the field of museum studies. I analyze how their representations of popular music, in particular their depictions of electric guitars, echo as well as shape racialized, gendered, and otherwise “identified” views of what can loosely be defined as rock and roll. While the Rock Hall largely strives to preserve a canonical version of the genre and primarily speaks to a baby-boomer audience, MoPOP offers a more interactive and broadly focused view of popular culture that includes rock and roll as one of many elements. Yet, even the more liberatory approach of MoPOP is clearly tied to capitalist notions of popular music’s distribution and commodification.
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