Word: antirock
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...Clevelanders call it) focuses on music that has always been identified with rebellious youth culture, its exhibits seem forever fresh, bursting with the antiestablishment adolescent energy of the past five decades. Among the first things a visitor walking into the museum sees are huge black-and-white photos of antirock protests through the years, from crowds burning Beatles records to police protesting rapper Ice-T's lyrics. Barrie is a passionate advocate of freedom of expression--he successfully fought an obscenity charge brought against a 1990 exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio...
...narrative splinters and slows down. The ideas seem less fresh -- especially a much too long visual riff on links between demagogic politics and celebrity culture -- and emotional payoffs are few, though one is a lollapalooza. But the failings are fixable. The high spots are thrilling. And even for an antirock curmudgeon like this writer, for whom music ended with Mahler, the show is never less than fun to hear and, especially...
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