Music and Morals

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Rick Warren writes in The Purpose Driven Church, "I reject the idea that music styles can be judged as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’...no particular style of music is ‘sacred’...There is no such thing as ‘Christian music’, only Christian lyrics." This is the myth that Kimberly Smith exposes in this book, Music and Morals, which comes packaged with a CD containing sample clips of the kind of music being examined. Smith proves from scientific research that music can have both positive and negative effects; that immoral music is more powerful than any Christian lyrics that may be set to it; that certain rhythms have underlying meanings and that there are such things as moral and immoral techniques used in music composition. The author is an accomplished musician with 15 years of classical piano training who has written two other books on this subject. 158 pages