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Over the years, Chucky, also known an Saint Chuckles and Pope Chucklins, to distinguish and extinguish himself from 'Chucky', the evil, red-headed, theatrical doll, has brought over some of his music collection on MP3 for me to add to iTunes. This is done as cheap birthday and Christmas gifts and to save him cash.
Of course, Chucky is now a 'famed conductor?' or at least a choir performer on a world tour which has included, Germany, Carnegie Hall and Powell River.
He added a few Glass Harp tracks to my collection a few years ago. This is much better than The Mars Volta, another band, Chucky dropped off, which sounds like a Martian electrocuted by high voltage.
I mentioned to Saint Chucklins that I liked some of the music of Glass Harp, a classic Christian band. The other day Chucky brought over a large part of their catalogue on MP3 for me to copy to my iTunes. Therefore, Glass Harp is now #7 for song total on my iTunes. Glass Harp is also the only modern Christian music in my collection, although I have some classical music within the Christian tradition.
This makes Chucky, the Mennonite music missionary?
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I had an older seminary professor that had similar views.
It would very difficult to prove that the feel of rock music is related to juvenile delinquency.
It would be very difficult to prove that an amoral beat is evil in a moral context.
It would be very difficult to prove that an amoral beat is good in a moral context.
Therefore his propositions are not reasonable.
Further:
If legitimate reasonable critiques of pop art, including rock music, are made, negative or positive, they need to be philosophically (and theologically) reasonable.
Music in itself is amoral notes and beats and could be considered abstract. But as an art form, music can be used for sinful purposes as in propaganda or with the use of immoral lyrics. Music can be used for good purposes, such as in a Christian context, worship music.
