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2531755, RE: yeah, I think the rejection of the church has hurt music in a lot of ways
Posted by El_essence, Wed Mar-30-11 12:17 PM
>and I know a lot of people might try to argue and name
>various classic, funky artists who may or may not have been
>religious on a personal level.
>
>But the thing is that the musical ETHOS of the church was
>driving that music... and that tradition has not been carried
>on, so the music is gonna suffer.
Although I'm not christian and haven't been to a church in ages, it sounds as though it hasn't really been carried on within the church either.
>When you listen to the piano and guitar riffs played by Sly
>Stone (the founder of the Funk genre), some of that shit was
>pure and unadulterated gospel.
not just the riffs. The vocals too.
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