[I discovered through a comment that I’d inadvertently copped the title for yesterday’s post from a book on this topic: Tim Stevens’ Pop Goes the Church: Should the Church Engage Pop Culture? I’ve not had a chance to look at it myself, but if you’re interested in going deeper on this topic, you might check [...]
Back in the 60s, in an attempt to attract a new generation of the faithful back into the fold, American Catholics pioneered “folk worship” services: Sunday mass in which an acoustic guitar led young congregants in praise and worship songs. It represented a brush with ecumenicism, as well as a flirtation with popular youth culture: [...]
All of this begs the question, for Kruger as well as for any politically engaged postmodern artist: If we’re all patsies of the simulacrum, how can we choose a political program? How does one slip out from under “remote control” in order to make decisions with any but false consciousness? In U2′s Zoo TV Live [...]