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In my experience, secular music being considered sinful had primarily to do with our interpretation and application of passages such as 2 Cor 6:14-7:1, James 4:4, 1 John 2:15

When Jimmy Swaggart told us it was.Then I discovered everybody is wrong that is not in Jimmy's camp.Seriously I never thought all secular music was sinful. IMO it all about the lyrics, not the style of music. Even all Rap music is not sinful. However it is to my ears. I do not like any rap, secular or Christian.There again this is my personal taste Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

I suspect the phrase worldly amusements has been around longer than any of us can remember.I was just reading the other day about Aimee Semple McPherson, the woman who founded the Foursquare Church. She was born in 1890, so she would have been a teen in the early part of the 20th century. Check out this quote from the Wikipedia page. As a teenager, McPherson strayed from her mother's teachings by reading novels and going to movies and dances, activities which were strongly disapproved of by both the Salvation Army and the religion of her father, James Kennedy, a Methodist. Novels, though, made their way into the Methodist Church library and with guilty delight, McPherson would read them.

I missed the burning for music sound sake.(wrong beat, etc)But - I was strongly influenced to check the words to songs - and shun them if it taught immorality