Does "Rock music is evil / of the devil" have racist roots? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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As a Christian most of the circles I'm around are pretty chill...no stone-cold fundamentalists. But I have been around people (and even had family members) who are 100% convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home.

The root of the belief is that rock music uses drums, which are used by voodoo tribes in Africa to entrance people.

Along a different track of thinking, from where did rock music originate? Slaves. They created the guitar because slave-owners didn't allow them to make music with drums.

So then is "rock music is evil" sort of an echo of that attitude?

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[-] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some blues guitarist back in the day sold his soul to the devil to become the greatest guitar player of his time and with his powers he wrote a album and invented rock n' roll. He died at age 27 and since then lots of great rock stars have died at age 27. Its called the 27 club. Personally I think that's fucking cool and it makes me like rock n' roll even more 🎸

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some blues guitarist back in the day sold his soul to the devil to become the greatest guitar player of his time and with his powers he wrote a album and invented rock n’ roll.

That sounds like it would make a great movie setup.

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Not sure if serious...

But just in case (and for others) the blues musician is Robert Johnson and the movie inspired by him (albiet in a roundabout way) is Crossroads.

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Interesting.

I was thinking of the movie "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny".

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