Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music

The most recent Gravity group meeting consisted of taking a respite from looking at the life of Abram and instead watching a movie. That movie being Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music. The film is a documentary focusing on christian music, specifically the rock n' roll genre of christina music. Most of the film's footage was taken at the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois from the year 2000 and there are interviews from musicians, critics and attendee's of the festival spread throughout. 

The title of the film comes from a Larry Norman song. For those not familiar with Larry Norman he was one of the first professing christian musicians to use the rock n' roll as a means of expressing  his faith. Larry recently passed away but the legacy of what he was able to do continues on in the outgrowth of a musical movement. 

What the film allowed us to do at Gravity is discuss the christian music scene and discuss some of the topics and questions that were asked to people in the film. Some of the things discussed were commercialization, authenticity, preaching vs. positivism, hypocrisy and music in general. 

There is allot that can be discussed about the film and I'm sure that many more viewings of the film will come in the future.