An analysis about why the GREAT rock music received and still receive so much prejudice.
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:02 pm
Rock is really GREAT music. I believe that the reasons of why rock was received so badly by adults, songwriters and music stars in the 50s and 60s were not just the natural repulse that people have of new things (the fact that the rock bands wrote the own songs put big fear in the songwriters), but principally the ideology and way of life that even today make many people criticize rock.
Alec Wilder said that when he saw the way that rock fans and rock artistas dressed themselves (style of hair and many other things), when he saw that they used drugs, when he saw the raw feeling of rock musicians (that had not many formal studies about musical theory, something that always made Alec Wilder said that rock was music made by amateurs if compared with the songwriters of standards), when he saw the extremely polemical things that rock stars made, the feeling of indignation against the society of guys like Morrison and many others, Alec Wilder said that could not feel another thing about rock that was not hate and that rock was just a noisy sound.
Alec Wilder was not the exception, he was the rule: if was made a search in that time with adult people and also the big media opinion, the biggest musicians of that time, they would generally agree with Wilder. In fact, it was only by the mid-60s that rock began to be saw more seriously by music critics. In fact, only the quality and power of this genre made it survive all the massively negative opinions by musicians, adults, TV, radio, everybody except rock fans, that were teenagers principally, had disgust with genre in every sense, but principally considering it a corrupting force in the teenagers and sons. Rock really was the greatest symbol of counter-culture and, like the counter-culture, seen as music of tramps. Before I begin to listen Beatles, I had all these prejudices.
But the worst prejudice that rock receives is religious. Because of drugs, criticism of religion and God, ocultism and many other polemical things that rock musicians made in history, rock is seen by many christians, for example, as devil music. It is hard to argument in rock's defense when christians not only talk about drugs, personal life and opinions of many rock musicians, but principally when they pick the Bible and show versicles that say that christians must be apart of being influenced or have relations with anything that have or is influenced by ideas anti-christians or anti-any biblic idea. (this makes Imagine much criticized). I am christian and sometimes feel this conflict in my consciouness, with some christians saying that if I don't abandon rock I am putting rock above God and not being a true christian. But in fact, I will never listen an album as The Velvet Underground And Nico, my own conscience would not let me in peace. Even some much lighter Beatles songs, if compared with the album The Velvet Underground And Nico, like Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, She Said She Said and Dr. Robert make me have problem with my conciouness because of their lyrics. Sorry if I made my analysis too personal and confessional.
What do you agree or disagree about my analysis? I want your opinions and advices.
Alec Wilder said that when he saw the way that rock fans and rock artistas dressed themselves (style of hair and many other things), when he saw that they used drugs, when he saw the raw feeling of rock musicians (that had not many formal studies about musical theory, something that always made Alec Wilder said that rock was music made by amateurs if compared with the songwriters of standards), when he saw the extremely polemical things that rock stars made, the feeling of indignation against the society of guys like Morrison and many others, Alec Wilder said that could not feel another thing about rock that was not hate and that rock was just a noisy sound.
Alec Wilder was not the exception, he was the rule: if was made a search in that time with adult people and also the big media opinion, the biggest musicians of that time, they would generally agree with Wilder. In fact, it was only by the mid-60s that rock began to be saw more seriously by music critics. In fact, only the quality and power of this genre made it survive all the massively negative opinions by musicians, adults, TV, radio, everybody except rock fans, that were teenagers principally, had disgust with genre in every sense, but principally considering it a corrupting force in the teenagers and sons. Rock really was the greatest symbol of counter-culture and, like the counter-culture, seen as music of tramps. Before I begin to listen Beatles, I had all these prejudices.
But the worst prejudice that rock receives is religious. Because of drugs, criticism of religion and God, ocultism and many other polemical things that rock musicians made in history, rock is seen by many christians, for example, as devil music. It is hard to argument in rock's defense when christians not only talk about drugs, personal life and opinions of many rock musicians, but principally when they pick the Bible and show versicles that say that christians must be apart of being influenced or have relations with anything that have or is influenced by ideas anti-christians or anti-any biblic idea. (this makes Imagine much criticized). I am christian and sometimes feel this conflict in my consciouness, with some christians saying that if I don't abandon rock I am putting rock above God and not being a true christian. But in fact, I will never listen an album as The Velvet Underground And Nico, my own conscience would not let me in peace. Even some much lighter Beatles songs, if compared with the album The Velvet Underground And Nico, like Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, She Said She Said and Dr. Robert make me have problem with my conciouness because of their lyrics. Sorry if I made my analysis too personal and confessional.
What do you agree or disagree about my analysis? I want your opinions and advices.