Poll: In general, how should worship music relate to culture?

July 30 2008

Poll: In general, how should worship music relate to culture?

Tagged Under : culture, poll, worship

If you’re new to this blog you’ll notice I like doing a poll on a certain topic before I take my thoughts to the world. The idea of how worship music should relate to culture is one I’ve wrestled with for a long time and still do now. I’m interested to see what kind of thoughts we have out there on this. Let’s make sure we have our definitions agreed upon first.

Countercultural - Purposefully exhibiting behavior in opposition to the dominant culture which it resides in.
Subcultural - Behaving as a distinctly different culture which exists within another culture and that has not been assimilated. A subculture tends to be oblivious to or unconcerned with the dominant culture in which it exists and just carries on in its own culture bubble.
Unicultural - I made this word up. What I mean by this is exhibiting the same behavior as the dominant culture in which it resides.

I’m letting you choose more than one answer because I know I would. Obviously the “every way” choices are mutually exclusive so only pick one answer if that’s your choice. I’d love to hear your explanation of your choices in the comments. I’d suspect a disconnect in many of our ideas of what should be the case and what is the case. So let’s hear those gripes as well. Let’s get this party started.

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(01) posted on Poll: In general, how should worship music relate to culture?

jd says...

Countercultural - In character.

Subcultural - Stylistically not mimicking the world, but creatively leading the way.

Unicultural - relevant to what is going on inside of our culture.

Posted on 30 Jul 2008 at 1:45 pm

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July 30 2008