Meg:

Rock and music are two separate categories. Rock music itself is not one single category. There's no option for me to vote for.

Music is one thing, and it can take an endless amount of forms. Rock is a philosophy which effects the way music is approached. You can't just talk about Rock Music as if it were one category. It isn't.

But there's a different problem here too. Worship music is also put into a single category, and that too is just as impossible. Just because it may be the other extreme from Rock, that doesn't mean that you can just talk about worship music as if you're talking about one single thing.

You can talk about colour, for example, but its the things that any one colour is on that makes it appropriate or inappropriate. A blue lampshade is more about the lampshade than about the colour. Music is just like that. There is no such thing as just music. It has to be attached to something; it has to communicate something. Otherwise there's no difference between music and noise.

Talking about any kind of music is more about that which it is on (like a colour is on an object) than about organized sound. So talking about Rock Music is about Rock, not music. And then it's the Rock that determines what kind of noise is organized, and how it is organized.

For me to vote on this, you would have to clarify. Because the way it is, even if you replaced "Rock music" with "worship music", I still wouldn't have anything to vote for.

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John Vandervliet
Ontario, Canada
member of: Canadian Reformed Church
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are" C.S Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism