CHURCH MUSIC AND ROCK MUSIC-part 4

 

CHURCH MUSIC AND ROCK MUSIC-part 4

What about the church excluding rock based music on the basis of its extreme use of the elements of music like dynamics, rhythm, and beat in rock music.  Christian musicians who do not condone secular and religious rock music have sometimes made statements concerning rock music that cannot be substantiated.  Therefore, I am cautious of making these types of comments even though it is possible that many of them may be true or at least partially true.  However, I will attempt to address some of the issues of the elements of rock music in the discussion that follows.

I am skeptical of results derived from playing rock music to milk cows or to research projects involving playing rock music to plants.  My reasoning is obvious – we are not plants and, although we are part of the animal kingdom, we are not milk cows.  Be it fact or fictions that cows give more milk to Bach’s music than to rock music, I don’t want to place my philosophical basis on animal research.  Although there may be truth in the concept of backward masking, there is no evidence to prove that humans hear rock music or any music for that matter, in a backwards manner.  The term backward masking means playing and listening to a tape played backward.  I know of no empirical research that shows or tends to show that humans have a new hearing malady, which we might term “dyslexic hearing.”  It is my belief that we should first concern ourselves with the many problems with listening to rock music in a foreword direction.  When we resolve the plethora of confusion about conventional listening to rock music then perhaps we should analyze listening to it backwards.