The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 1995
THE ROCK and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Cleveland this past Labor Day weekend, amid vast hype and a thinner layer of dissent — i.e., people who argued that putting rock'n'roll in a museum kills off the spirit of the music. To me, if rock mattered — if rock matters — then it's as deserving of serious study as any other form of culture. To think otherwise is to reaffirm the highbrow/lowbrow boundaries rock'n'roll exists to tear down.
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