Rick,can Epstein & Beatles be enlisted with the others or wasn'he jewish?!

I suppose if you go back to OLD folk,before the industrial plague,popular music was 1) the local telly/Cosmopolitan/Wthever Morning Herald; 2) a good way of scoring,ops courting someone; 3) a way of relying to God.After all,religiosity has been the main basis of western society(have a look at frescoes in Churches for painting & archit. & sculptures),from Greeks on,and pretty much for other cultures as well. Ans folks were much more likely to sing for some God to help them than rich city people! I add the usual mediterranean touch letting you know that folk tradition down there has A LOT to do with religion. Apart from very profane sexual subjects,a good 70% of songs names God,asks for something or so.Especially,of course,stuff survived from medieval times.God was quite fashonable those times. And oh,did we consider the fact that a lot of music surviving old times got to us thanks to be sung in churches or written down by those monks who worked hard on notation systems?! (I studied gregorian singing years ago ;it's a very complex but genial way of writing singing.The tunes are almost at the level of crazy contemporary music,but more beautiful.)