Friday, August 29, 2008

Sorry I know its been a Minute "Respect for Art"

If a person should travel to there local gas station one will find that there is magazines and in these magazines it often times seems like there main focus is on many art forms of the current day, with music or movies most of the time being number one on the list. Something as mainstream as Hip-Hop, that is such a huge part of the today’s media, fails to get the recognition as an art form that it deserves. The influence is so great that from the Clothing lines all the way down to cellular devices you can see some of Hip-hops most treasured Icons. This would lead one to think that there would be some type of museum put in place for a modern day Beethoven or Mozart. The art form of Rock & Roll has its own huge hall of fame located in Cleveland, Ohio. This museum is a beautiful piece of artwork in itself because of the way it was constructed. It has incorporated art forms such as Jazz, R&B, and Hip-Hop into its museum. At which most times these arts were specifically going against the mainstream Rock & Roll. It has been a huge question to many people how artist of a genre that is (huge in itself and has huge influences) could ever want to be a small entity in a music form that it is not, and has never tried to be.
I believe that each art form deserves its own respective museum. You would not go to a photo gallery to listen to music so I don’t think you should see Hip-Hop in a Rock & Roll Museum. And that goes for its forefathers of Jazz and R&B as well

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