[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: [...]
An embarrassingly “lite” post for today—and what’s more, I’m going to try to make you, Dear Reader, do the work. It’s in the form of one of those analogy tests. Look at these two examples and, having sussed out the pattern, suggest other examples of your own? Talking Heads, “Radio Head” (from True Stories) = Radiohead [...]
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 [...]
My thesis, in yesterday’s post, was that Twitter and Facebook together have made attending a conference a lot richer, and a lot more complicated. Which are perhaps two ways of saying the same thing. Richer (cont.): I’m sure all of this—the invasion of conferences by Twitter and Facebook—isn’t news to many of you; I’m sure [...]