Is it "only rock 'n' roll"? Far from being just a youthful fad, rock and roll music is a powerful force for subversive cultural, social, and political change. (Cover Story: Music).

Johann Sebastian Bach, arguably the greatest composer who ever lived, once said that "the aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging." It might be a stretch to insist that all music measure up to the lofty standards of the man whose timeless musical creations include the "Mass in B minor," the "St. Matthew Passion," "Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring," the "Brandenburg Concerti," and thousands of cantatas, fugues, and other compositions dedicated entirely to glorifying God. But certainly Bach's second criterion, that music ...