Sacropop

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Sacropop (also: Sakropop ) refers to a part of contemporary church music that has been influenced by jazz , folklore , beat and pop music . Sacro stands for "holy" and pop as an abbreviation for " popular music ".

term

Sacropop is often used as a synonym for the New Spiritual Song (NGL), but only covers part of the New Spiritual Song. This sub-area can, however, be described as the mainstream of the NGL, since all other subspecies are named specifically (e.g. Taizé songs, worship songs , religious children's songs, etc.). The term sacropop goes back to the environment of the German composer Peter Janssens . An employee of the Goethe-Institut used the word sacropop for the first time in 1971 in Colombia on the occasion of a guest performance by Janssens. Sacropop is a composition in the style of pop music with Christian or religious text.

In terms of music theory, however, there is no spiritual way of performing popular music. Any kind of popular music can be played along with each text. Sacro or " spiritual is not relevant to the definition of popular music", states Michael Schütz .

In Germany, the term was first used in 1972 in the musical Menschensohn by Peter Janssens and Karl Lenfers (subtitle: A Sacro-Pop Musical ) and became well known through its marketing on sound carriers. At the German Evangelical Church Congress in 1973, Sacropop became even better known among the church public.

Many authors and bands use the term sacropop instead of NGL. Some examples are:

  • Fritz Baltruweit : Sacropop in a dead end? In: Music and Church. Volume 52, 1982, ISSN  0027-4771 , pp. 66-75
  • Gisela Esser : Sacropop - in worship and teaching. In: Catechetical Sheets. Volume 119, Issue 1, 1994, ISSN  0342-5517 , pp. 38-42
  • Andreas Marti (among others): Madonna meets Joh. Seb. Bach: (Sacro) pop and church music in conflict (conference report). In: Music & Worship. Volume 45, No. 3, 1991, ISSN  1015-6798 , pp. 129-133.
  • Hermann Schulze-Berndt : Sacro-Pop and Gospel-Rock: Sing to whom singing is given. In: In the service of the Church. Volume 65, Issue 4, 1984, ISSN  0939-4656 , p. 184

Research on sacro-pop has been carried out for several years, especially around the artist group monochrom , and a large collection of songs has been collected. Frank Apunkt Schneider, member of the group, analyzes Sacropop as follows:

The "dwindling number of young people attending church services" was mostly explained in the 1970s with the "exclusion of the living environment of young people" from church services. In order to achieve it, the official churches had to make a (sham) peace with rock music and pop culture. The history of sacropop tells of the long, tenacious and tragicomic integration of pop into the church. Sacropop is »new church music with stylistic devices of modern popular music«, according to Peter Bubmann , the Diedrich Diederichsen of the scene. He took up the innumerable contradictions between religious dogmatism and pop culture's promise of freedom and brought them into an appropriate form: possibly the most alienated form of pop.

See also

Christian pop music , praise and worship , Christian metal

literature

  • René Frank : The New Spiritual Song - New Impulses for Church Music . Tectum, Marburg 2003, ISBN 3-8288-8573-X .
  • Peter Bubmann : Popular Church Music of the Present, in: Wolfgang Hochstein / Christoph Krummacher (eds.), History of Church Music, Vol 4: The second half of the 20th century and the challenges of the present   (Encyclopedia of Church Music, Vol. I / 4, Laaber 2014, 292–343).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Schütz , Popular Music, in: Siegfried Bauer , Trying and Studying. Textbook for basic training in Protestant church music , Strube-Verlag (Edition 9024), Munich 1996, p. 397, ISBN 3-921946-29-8
  2. ↑ Udo Grub: Evangelical traces in the Catholic standard hymn book "Gotteslob" from 1975. Lit, Berlin / Münster 2012, also dissertation, University of Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11663-5 , here p. 275.
  3. ↑ Examples proven in: Peter Deckert: DIE NGL-LITERATURLISTE. Developed by Peter Deckert. Published by the SINGLES working group in the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) in the Archdiocese of Cologne. February 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ See also: Bach Bibliography, Series: MGottesd, Volume: 45, Year: 1991
  5. ↑ Frank Apunkt Schneider: Zero percent cult. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Frank Apunkt Schneider: The strange and strange world of sacropop. October 18, 2012, accessed February 21, 2019 .