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Writing about 20 years ago, cultural analyst and philosopher Allan Bloom held a negative view of the musical style of popular rock music.<\/p>\n

Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse. … But rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal to sexual desire–not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Closing of the American Mind<\/em><\/p>\n

We know he wasn’t mastered by his love for Christian hymnody when he offered this judgment. Why would he say this? And why would contemporary Christians doubt it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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