“There was abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature.”Alan: I always thought it was “hey nonny no, nanny ninny no” and I’m getting kind of confused with all the nannies and the ninnies.
Jerry: There’s no nanny, just take that out of the equation. It’s “hey nonny no, nonny ninny o”.
Mark: Iron clad rule, Alan: nonny before ninny.
Alan: Well, I don’t sing this one anyway.
Jerry: No, so it’s kind of academic.
Silly folk music.
Rock and folk music and even folkrock music have their place -in the dorm room, the concert hall, club, bar, my car, etc. Just not inside the church during mass.Without rock music, I’d shrivel up and die!
Actually, in theory, this is an approach that interests me. One of the things I have noticed about the speed-metal, shredder-type players is how easily they can adapt their techniques to baroque music. Being able to finger-tap a Bach fugue is almost de rigueur for all Yngwie-accolytes. It’s just my observation, but for many kids weaned on rock, baroque often provides a gateway into classical music. They seem to “get it” almost immediately.
There is nothing wrong with it, as long the music itself isn’t profane. As I mentioned in a previous post, we have to sort out music, lyrics and cultural connotations. If we grant that the lyrics have been revised to weed out the offensive message (true in my example), and if we grant that most people don’t remember the tune as an old ale-house favorite (probably true, but now that I told you the true story of The Shearin’s Nae for You I might have spoiled that for you), then we have to answer the question of the music itself. Is the music somehow profaning in and of itself? If so, then what is it about folk-music that is inherently profaning? (We should leave aside the question of whether folk music is some, any, or mostly good for now - that’s a different debate.)
This is a good question. In October there were a lot of threads about the inherent evils of American-style Halloween. Even the briefest review of those threads will show you that some people feel very strongly that children dressing up and extracting a candy donation from their neighbors is just a fews steps shy of coven-membership. I would argue, however, that the impact of such holidays is necessarily small, given that Halloween only comes once a year, while the influence of folk music is ever-present in modern Christian worship.