Is there good and bad music?
By Bruce Keisling January 18, 2008
This is the question that it really comes down to isn’t it? Is there bad music or it is just everyone’s taste and preferences? — You know, you have yours and I have mine and let’s be tolerant of each other.
Roger Scruton in his book Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged says there is bad music. He says “we move with the music that we listen to, and this too is a sympathetic response, a way of shaping our inner life to fit the perceived life of another. . . . Movement is a mark of character, and some kinds of character ought not to be subjects of sympathy, not even of the wordless sympathy that is conveyed by instrumental music.” — What do you think about what he says? Come Sunday morning and we’ll think more about God and music.