As a Christian most of the circles I’m around are pretty chill…no stone-cold fundamentalists. But I have been around people (and even had family members) who are 100% convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home.
The root of the belief is that rock music uses drums, which are used by voodoo tribes in Africa to entrance people.
Along a different track of thinking, from where did rock music originate? Slaves. They created the guitar because slave-owners didn’t allow them to make music with drums.
So then is “rock music is evil” sort of an echo of that attitude?
I think we’re ignoring the bigger question: what kinda music DOESN"T have drums? like, literally EVERY FORM OF MUSIC uses drums, or some machine playing back a drum beat.
Classical music doesn’t necessarily have drums. It might have some percussion but they’re not as prominent as with a lot of pop music.
Acapella
So barber shop is the lord’s music then. Hmmm
String quartets? A cappella?
Church hymns
Ambient and some styles of classical music come to mind.
Umm, no.
Lots and lots and lots and lots (repeat ad infinitum) of music has no drums.
I’d say that most forms of music have some kind of rhythm instrument, often those are some form of percussion instrument.
I’ve definitely heard some experimental stuff that didn’t use any form of rhythm instruments. Then again, you can just record the ambient sound of a city and call that music, so to each their own.
A cappella