This is our Rockligion
Rock[and Roll]:
The word “rock” had a long history in the English language as a metaphor for “to shake up, to disturb or to incite”. The verb “roll” was a medieval metaphor which meant “having sex”. The term was introduced by Alan Freed, a dj, who used the term to undermine the segregation of popular music into black and white. It eventually let to a great advance in American civil liberties, as well as a revolution in music that made musical segregation impossible, as both black and white performers took up the phrase and together developed the new genre. By the mid-1960s the name shrank to “rock”.
Religion:
- Something one believes in and follows devotedly.
- An object, practice, cause, or activity that somebody is completely devoted to or obsessed by.
- A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
Rockligion:
An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, pertaining to unbridled enthusiasm, cynical regard for certain authoritarian bodies, and attitudes befitting some degree of youthful debauchery.
