Name that tune
Catholicism: Classical
Protestantism: Pop
Evangelicalism: Jazz
Discuss...
Protestantism: Pop
Evangelicalism: Jazz
Discuss...
posted by Rick Broussard at 9:25 PM
Thursday, September 29, 2005
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When I think of many religious and other Catholics in peace protests and working with the poor and needy i also think of folk songs...
Interesting question as a multilayer Rorschach test looking at how we perceive both music and our own faith traditions and how those two pictures look laid over each other.
First answer is easy -- I know it's going to seem like a cop out, but it's honesty my initial, off the cuff reaction...
Catholicism: No specific type, or better, any and all musical forms (from rock to bluegrass to Andean flute music to opera) capable of expressing beauty to an audience as variable in taste and cultural reference points as all humanity.
Second two are tougher, and I wouldn't argue these with any conviction, but here's what comes to mind ...
Protestantism: Classical
Evangelicalism: Pop
I like Hector's thought and don't contest it.
Ernesto, I'd have though you'd say something like...
Evangelicalism: Jars of Clay
But I suppose that would be an inside joke.
I'll stand by my original pairings, because the unspoken rule is you gotta pick one style per religion. Catholicism resembles classical music with its historic roots and traditions and large scale of operation.
The protestants took the show on the road to appeal to the people, and splintered into the whole gamut of musical styles, eventually giving birth to crooners and hot shots, easy listening Episcopalians, rock and roll charismatics and schmaltzy Southern Baptists.
Then, in the spirit of improv and spontenaity, the modern evangelical movement began, borrowing from all the other styles and contributing back to them. Pure modern evangelism is true to the spirit of the song but likes to play with the notes.
Hmmm... taking it a bit further, there are many styles & types of classical music. Baroque, chamber, orchestral, arias, cantatas, chorales, chants, fugues, overtures, sonatas, et al.
One thing even us Catholics sometimes lose sight of is that Catholicism is a very diverse bunch of folks. Catholciism in the dumps of Brazil is, for example, very different from the pageant and pomp of the Vatican. The Jesuits are worlds apart from the Carthusians. All this diversity revolves around and is held together by some powerful central forces - love of and devotion to Christ, belief in a common creed, the Eucharist, and so on.
I think Steve's point sums up a bit more succinctly what I was trying to say.
But Rick, since you made up the game and say the rules demand a single genre, here it is...
Catholicism - World Music
Protestantism: Classical
Evangelicalism: Pop
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