{"id":2817,"date":"2020-09-15T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:25:30","slug":"blog-post-9-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/15\/blog-post-9-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 9\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I found most interesting was just how wrong I was about the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0 I was always taught that there was a unified fight for independence. I knew that the Continental Congress fought over funding for the war, but I never knew the extent to which the Southern States didn\u2019t want to secede from Britain. I found it interesting how 1776 was able to tell a serious story through music also while using comedy. I never realized how much the other states didn\u2019t like Adams and Massachusetts, and I think 1776 did a very good job at displaying this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PHOUS makes me question what actually happened during these time periods.\u00a0 In 1776 the people in the Continental Congress are portrayed as regular people, while in reality the delegates were some of the richest people in the colonies. I know that the film is probably inaccurate, yet I was still able to learn a lot from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contrasting the style of 1776 to Hamilton 1776 uses a more classical style of music, while Hamilton is much more modern and upbeat. Both are very successful portraying their story while using different strategies. Hamilton represents a more modern America while telling a story about the past. The play accomplishes this by using minorities as all the characters, and using rap and hip hop music to tell the story. Meanwhile, most of the main characters in 1776 are white males representing what the Continental Congress actually looked like.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I found most interesting was just how wrong I was about the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0 I was always taught that there was a unified…<\/p>\n

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