Women! Don't listen to Jazz!
"New Orleans jazz has a primitive tom-tom rhythm that does a single woman's peace of mind no good, is one of the insane claims from the Tower about the harmful jazz music.
The fact is - if you check up the
writings of the Tower - the only safe music is the "Kingdom Songs" -
and those do kill your brain if you love music:-))
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This
does not mean that you cannot enjoy music; not all popular music is
objectionable. Some youths have also learned to broaden their musical
tastes and now enjoy certain classical, folk, light jazz, and other
forms of music. The Kingdom Melodies tapes have helped many youths
develop a taste for uplifting orchestral music.
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Of
course, you still need to be selective. But within the realms of folk,
jazz, and, yes, classical music, there is an abundance of wholesome
music that you can learn to enjoy. In fact, you may already enjoy such
music without realizing it.
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Even with their different types of music, the jazz musicians had no
difficulty in merging their music with the sutras. "I think
improvisation is somehow closely connected to spiritual awakening in
religion,
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Jazz, the United States' contribution to 20th-century music, now came
of age. It was a "music that represented a generation's disdain for
restraint and respectability.
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This
rejection of long-accepted standards of conduct and values caused
author F. Scott Fitzgerald to refer to the 1920's as the Jazz Age. And
as jazz rapidly gained worldwide acceptance, so did the pleasure-seeking
attitude it represented.
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"As abundance ebbed, leaving millions suffering privation, the twenties
seemed no more than an unreal interlude or a cruel joke-an immoral jazz
age, the era of the golden calf."
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Yes,
I still love music! I particularly enjoy classical, folk-rock, and some
jazz, but I have now become more selective in the kind I listen to.
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"Keep off jazz, rock, pop or any other loud music in the interest of your unborn child,"
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Jazz on Vatican Radio
•
Things have changed at the Vatican's radio station, inaugurated in 1931
by Pope Pius XI. Today one can tune in the program "Studio A" and hear
jazz music in stereo.
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Is
jazz your choice? Then you evidently like the syncopation, the "blues"
sound, and perhaps you admire the improvisation. But, remember, not
everything that is improvised has beauty. How does it affect you?
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New Orleans jazz has a primitive tom-tom rhythm that does a single woman's peace of mind no good.
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At the other end of the musical spectrum from classical compositions we
find the syncopated jazz and rock music. Even here one finds some music
that is melodic and moderate. But some of it is wild and strident. That
is why musicians themselves distinguish between jazz and rock music
that is "soft" and that which is "hot," "hard" or "acid." You should be
able to tell what kind of conduct the music is promoting-your ear, your
mind and heart should tell you. The words or the tone of certain music
is sometimes so obvious that people easily associate it with certain
types of conduct or kinds of persons.
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"If
I have to choose between having my children listening to that sort of
thing [jazz] as against some of the elevating and enlightening programs
broadcast by the Bible Students, I prefer that some of this other
material be taken off the air and that the Bible Students' programs be
allowed to remain, even though I may not agree with their religious
views.
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Robert
Palmer, a jazz critic writing for The New York Times under the heading
"Witchery Pervades a Jazz Album," commented about the black jazz group
called The Art Ensemble of Chicago, stating: "The Art Ensemble of
Chicago's slogan is 'Great Black Music-Ancient to the Future' . . . But
there is more than one sort of blackness here. There is . . . the
blackness of voodoo spells cast in the dead of night. It isn't exactly a
malevolent blackness, but this is not the sort of record one would put
on at even the wildest party. . . . It is a phantasmagorical expedition
into the heart of darkness." As a disciple of Christ would you want that
type of music in your collection?
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Former
nightclub performer Gordon Grant, who once earned his living playing
jazz and then rock in Los Angeles, U.S.A., stated: "All the groups that I
was associated with were to some degree into spiritism. The opening
gambit when you met someone new was 'What's your sign?' They took
astrology seriously and your zodiac sign was important." Do you want to
be identified with astrology and other demonic practices?
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I
developed quite a liking for alcohol and frequently got drunk during my
college days. For a while I resisted the temptation to use drugs, but
before long I was pressured by my jazz friends into trying marijuana.
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At
the other end of the musical spectrum from classical compositions we
find the syncopated jazz and rock music. Even here one finds some music
that is melodic and moderate. But much of it is wild and strident. That
is why musicians themselves distinguish between jazz and rock music that
is "soft" and that which is "hot," "hard" or "acid." You should be able
to tell what kind of conduct the music is promoting-your ear, your mind
and heart should tell you. The words or the tone of certain music is
sometimes so obvious that people easily associate it with certain types
of conduct or kinds of persons. The Bible, for example, speaks of the
"songs of drinkers" and the "song of a prostitute."
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Often
there is much eating and drinking, which tend to encourage one to
become less discreet. Substitute noisy "jazz" and rock 'n' roll music
with 'good music
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United
States, either hitchhiking or using secondhand cars, going to wild
parties . . . , living on very little or nothing, occasionally stealing,
and always talking intensely about love, God and salvation, listening
ardently to jazz in small crowded joints and availing themselves freely
of casual, generous and beautiful girls. . . . The quest for 'immediate
experience' means that first place is given to sexual freedom. . . .
Like many jazz enthusiasts the Beat Generation may indulge marijuana,
morphine and other drugs
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Some merely glorify movie stars and kings of jazz. Others, taught to
revel in deeper sins, glorify crime and sex and become intoxicated with
these idol practices of this corrupt world. Deadly bait are all such
injurious practices
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Sexually suggestive or passionate dancing to blaring jazz is not for Christians