OPINION: 'Perhaps the process would be less contentious if we understood the Rock Hall as two different Halls: one physical and one more ephemeral,' writes Alex_Rawls
. The second debate got underway last week when we learned that Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Rage Against the Machine, and The Spinners were voted in. The first question on many rock fans’ minds: Hey, why not Warren Zevon?
The live wire under those debates, of course, is taste. We all like to think the bands we love are good, meaningful, and meritorious of a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The problem is that many in the Hall seem important merely because they were successful, while many who made actual contributions to rock music weren’t broadly popular. It took the Early Influences Award to get seminal electronic band Kraftwerk in, despite them laying down the blueprint for EDM.
In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s early years, musical innovation and commercial success were celebrated in the same breath. Its first class in 1986 was dominated by the blues and R&B heroes of the ’50s and ’60s, including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and James Brown. The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and The Beach Boys followed two years later.
In 2013, the Rock Hall gave fans the opportunity to vote, in addition to the music industry professionals and musicians who had voted on inductees to that point. That gave a voice to the people who invested money, identity, and social capital in their favorite bands, and that gave those who voted an even stronger rooting interest in the results.
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