The Best of Music
Never before have their been so many styles and genres of music both in popular music forms and in the field of art music nor have we had such access to them. With the roots of popular music as we know it having come into its own with the advent of rock and its many derivatives in the 1950’s – now well over a half century in our past – the development of art music ongoing and vibrant, the resurgence of folks idioms in the 1960’s, the emergence of dozens of alternative styles since the 1980s, and the immense cross pollination of these forms; the creativity and sheer output of music in our day is unprecedented.
While the church and its musical productivity do not rival the musical yield of the culture at large, it is nevertheless prolific. This abundant output combined with the ready access that most in our culture have to it through the internet and technological devices, and the sheer near-addiction that many have to “their” music, exercises a large influence on the music of the local church and our role as leaders and curators of its song.
Never before have their been so many styles and genres of music both in popular music forms and in the field of art music nor have we had such access to them. With the roots of popular music as we know it having come into its own with the advent of rock and its many derivatives in the 1950’s – now well over a half century in our past – the development of art music ongoing and vibrant, the resurgence of folks idioms in the 1960’s, the emergence of dozens of alternative styles since the 1980s, and the immense cross pollination of these forms; the creativity and sheer output of music in our day is unprecedented.
While the church and its musical productivity do not rival the musical yield of the culture at large, it is nevertheless prolific. This abundant output combined with the ready access that most in our culture have to it through the internet and technological devices, and the sheer near-addiction that many have to “their” music, exercises a large influence on the music of the local church and our role as leaders and curators of its song.
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