"(An) intellectually provocative...meditation on the relationship between rock'n'roll and charismatic holy-rollerism can be found in Dan Graham's hour-long video Rock My Religion.... Graham's title (and thesis) comes from Patti Smith-'Mary Magdalene to the fallen rock idols of the '60s'-the tape's central figure. Smith, Elvis, and Jim Morrison-who in Graham's heroic formulation exposed his cock to destroy the Oedipal order but merely succeeded in destroying himself-are shown in the context of such earlier working-class cults as the Shakers and Quakers. (Smith's 'Piss Factory' has a particularly early 19th century tang.) In the course of this smart, eccentric history of shake'n'quake, Graham makes numerous pithy observations on the nature of American teenhood and postwar culture, using purposefully deranged movie quotes and various live performances to demonstrate that 'rock turns the tradition of American religion inside out.' An engaging amalgam of information and art, Rock My Religion is probably too crude for broadcast TV. Like the best documentaries, however, it succeeds in defamiliarizing a commonplace." J. Hoberman, Village Voice