New Vrindaban: The Black Sheep of ISKCON
Copyright 2002-07 by Henry Doktorski
Rock and Rap

Dutiful Rama with adoring fans.
Dutiful Rama with teenage band members.

Chapter outline:

    History of rock.
    Voodoo origins.
    Religious rock.
    San Francisco mantra rock dance: "no place for a brahmachari."
    Rock Mass.
    Prabhupada declares rock music suitable only for "gross outsiders."
    Kirtanananda Swami's traveling road show features rock music by Mangalananda.
    Preaching at colleges and universities.
    Prabhupada terminates road show: "All these things are nonsense inventions."
    Rock at New Vrindaban.
      Bhaktipada orders electric plug pulled during palace rock concert by Montreal devotee ATMA group.
    "Punk" rock in ISKCON: Straightedge Hardcore.
    Rap at New Vrindaban.
    Life Force rock band.
    Bhaktipada speaks out against rock and rap.
    Rock musicians may "have a deficient view of what is spiritual."
    Hansadutta Das, ISKCON's first rock star, speaks out.
    New Vrindaban rockers undeterred.

Premarnava
Premarnava.

Mantra Rock Dance Poster

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