Rock music has always been about living as you please and thumbing your nose at authorities. Since the 1950s, the phrase “let’s rock” has meant “let’s party, let’s drink, let’s get high, let’s do as we very well please.” The very name rock & roll was a euphemism for fornication. Rock’s danceability is due predominately to its emphasized syncopated rhythms.
The heavily syncopated rhythm is what has always made rock & roll sensual party music. I can testify that the influence was indeed “basically sexual, unpuritan.”Īnd the heavily syncopated rhythm, the rhythm that literally grabs the body and encourages it to move in a modern dance fashion, is a major part of the contemporary worship experience. It was the “beat” of rock that reached into a Christian home and captured my heart and soul as a teenager in the early 1960s. I can concur with this statement, along with thousands of others who have been “transformed” by the power of rock & roll music. It is a music that is basically sexual, unpuritan. The great strength of rock & roll lies in its beat. Irwin Silber, a communist who desired the see social degeneration that would overthrow the “old order,” observed that rock music has this power and it lies in its backbeat rhythm. Having studied Contemporary Christian Music since the 1970s, I have identified six elements of the music that work together to create the sensual experience sought by contemporary worshipers. His analysis of the unhealthy elements of Contemporary Christian Music, is incisive and accurate. Admin’s note: Like some of the other ministers whose articles I have reproduced here (as well as myself), David Cloud immersed himself in rock’n’roll in his youth, and was later converted.
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