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Smashing Pumpkins - Being Beige

Sometimes the people held on to old forms, like lining hymns, in which the preacher sings the first line and the congregation follows... or spirituals, which the whole church sings, preferring them to a fancier program by the choir, to which the congregation passively listens. Bringing choirs and organs and musical directors into the southern folk church silenced the congregation and the spiritual in the once folky Baptist and Methodist churches, so that the folk moved out and founded the song heavy sects of the Holiness movement.

Use of instruments likewise expressed traditional preferences. Strict old fashioned groups, like the Primitive Baptists, simply banned all instruments as tools of the devil, and this conservatism fostered the preservation of the older songs with scales and with ornamentation. The fiddle and the banjo were called the devil's stalking horses, the square dancers and jollifications where they were played were out of bounds for the straitlaced, and church members who persisted in playing or following this music could be brought before the congregation and put out of church. Until very recently, perhaps the Fifties, therefore, the piano and the harmonium were seldom heard in most folk churches. Stringed instruments, however, met a friendlier reception among white folk religionists, the guitar, the banjo, and then little combinations, first in old timey, then in bluegrass style, appeared in the evangelical churches and on recordings. Groups like the Carter family commonly sang sacred songs on their audio and recording dates... and the serious convert could have the string music he enjoyed, without feeling a threat to his religion.


Smashing Pumpkins - Being Beige
  • Composed by: Billy Corgan
  • Released in: 2014
  • Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock

"The Smashing Pumpkins was formed in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan, lead vocals and guitar,  D'arcy Wretzky, bass, James Iha, guitar, and Jimmy Chamberlin, drums, with their music containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and shoegazing."

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