Rock-N-Roll evolved greatly since the time of the 50’s when it originated. Adults back then were upset because they couldn’t and didn’t understand the music and lyrics. Today rock has created more opposition than that against music back then. Now the lyrics are clearer. The issue concerning them today is whether they influence kids’ actions. […]
Facts: 1. Very big – very many young people are involved. Stryper alone gets 2000 to 3000 letters each week. 2. Big finance, world tours, elaborate sets, lighting, costumes. 3. Some hits are crossover hits in secular field. Amy Grant sings with secular stars. 4. The music varies from contemporary to rock to heavy metal. […]
Welcome again, young people, to the world of books! I would like to review another book with you, but before we get to that, let me again encourage you to respond to these book reviews, either by telling me what you thought of the book(s) which was (were) reviewed on these pages, or by submitting […]
What we set out to do in this series of articles was to answer the question, what is wrong with rock music? You young people have heard rock and roll blasted from various sources — your parents, the pulpit, your teachers; the more well-informed and well-read among you are aware that even many non-Christian sources […]
The following is the full correct sentence of an erroneously abbreviated one in the February issue. The typesetter regrets the omission and bears full responsibility. The sentence was on page 11, 9th paragraph 8th line: “Parents should know that the examples in this book aren’t the worst ones. Some top hits are so lewd that […]
“Rock … is an open endorsement of sex permissiveness, perversion, drugs, disobedience to parents, hostility to society.” David Ewen, “All the Years of American Popular Music” “From its beginning rock ‘n’ roll has been characterized by an almost antiliterate lyric style which at first developed organically from teenage slang (Crazy, man, crazy) and black idiom […]
“Holy is rolling.” With diversity and steadily increasing frequency, it’s rocking. … behold, all things are being made new, or rather, contemporary. … holy is as holy does. A recent national report shows gospel outselling jazz and classical music …, and joining country music as the only recording category to turn a healthy profit.” l) […]
In previous articles on rock music we have learned the meaning of the term rock ‘n’ roll, namely fornication; we have learned something of the roots of rock: jazz – in particular the blues, swing, boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues – and country. We have seen that it was largely the secular music of the […]
It was the music of the American Negro which brought about rock ‘n’ roll! This fact becomes very clear as we trace the origin of rock music. But in addition to the evidence presented to you in our consideration of this subject in the two previous installments of “What’s Wrong with Rock? ‘ ‘ we […]
As we noted in the first installment on the origin of rock music in the May issue of the “Beacon Lights”, jazz had its origins primarily in the whorehouses of New Orleans, although it was also played in the saloons, dance halls, juke-joints and cabarets surrounding the ” red-light ” district. The two main elements […]