It’s a question of benchmarks. You referred to "Christian concerts", at term that, if you were to take at face value, would simply mean concerts with Christian content. But that adjective "Christian" is more slippery than that. It actually signals a shift in criteria by which the music is measured. The emphasis changes from "music" to "Christian", and the standard changes from degree of quality to degree of piety.
The same thing happens here in Canada with "Canadian content" regulations — radio producers have to seek out music that is sufficiently Canadian, and its musical quality gets overlooked (or there is simply not enough quality Canadian music to fill out a rotation).
Really, you shouldn’t be frustrated by it. People have tunnel vision, and have a hard time thinking on two planes. Given your comments on Frustration #2, it sounds like you value musical quality over piety. That’s great — just recognize you can’t expect satisfaction from Christian concert producers who have a different measuring stick.
dunadan
Apr 15 2006
04:28 pm
Re: Frustration #1
It’s a question of benchmarks. You referred to "Christian concerts", at term that, if you were to take at face value, would simply mean concerts with Christian content. But that adjective "Christian" is more slippery than that. It actually signals a shift in criteria by which the music is measured. The emphasis changes from "music" to "Christian", and the standard changes from degree of quality to degree of piety.
The same thing happens here in Canada with "Canadian content" regulations — radio producers have to seek out music that is sufficiently Canadian, and its musical quality gets overlooked (or there is simply not enough quality Canadian music to fill out a rotation).
Really, you shouldn’t be frustrated by it. People have tunnel vision, and have a hard time thinking on two planes. Given your comments on Frustration #2, it sounds like you value musical quality over piety. That’s great — just recognize you can’t expect satisfaction from Christian concert producers who have a different measuring stick.