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In a number of places in his writing on Pentecostalism<\/a>, David Martin refers to a musical variant of the \u201cHalevy thesis,\u201d Elie Halevy\u2019s argument that the evangelical revival that birthed Methodism was the framework within which English religion and culture developed during the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s variant is a musical Halevy thesis, which he applies to Pentecostal music in\u00a0 Tongues of Fire<\/a>: \u201cThe power of music is . . . an influence toward social harmony. Music is anciently credited with charms \u2018to soothe the savage breast.\u2019 A Woodstock is as much a harmless release as it is an incitement to change the world. Above all it unites across boundaries, Perhaps one should say that music initiates precisely the kind of potent cultural change initiated by religion, and in much the same way slowly corrodes the outer forms of social structure.\u201d In Latin America, Pentecostal music is so powerfully successful that \u201cPentecostals actually accuse Catholics of attending their services in order to steal their musical clothes\u2019 (175).\u00a0<\/p>\n

He cites a study of the Chol area of Mexico that argued that \u201cmusic is the most powerful of all agents for the propagation of \u2018the gospel,\u2019 so much so that in the Chol country . . . believers were labeled \u2018singers\u2019 by their irritated neighbours. . . . Next to the healings it is the rhythmic music and hand-clapping of the Pentecostals that provides the biggest attraction. When the Presbyterians cling to the older more hymnic styles and quieter kinds of service they lose ground to the Pentecostals\u201d (176).<\/p>\n

To italicize one point: Martin highlights the way Pentecostal music \u2013 music in general \u2013 can poke holes in social boundaries. Joined in music and dance, class and racial distinctions dissolve as everyone becomes one as they become one with the music.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"