Should Christians Join the Cultural Elite?
Just came across this and thought that I’d share.
Myers distinguishes between high art, folk art, and popular art. He rather likes the first two, despises the third. Folk art, like high art, he thinks, has been corrupted by popular art. With William Edgar (his review of All God’s Children, WTJ) and others, I think Myers’ thesis is greatly exaggerated. There is much good in popular art (though we tend not to recognize it until it becomes old fashioned: ragtime, blues, big bands, Elvis, the Beatles, and so on). The problem is not with one genre or another, but, as Van Til emphasized, the sin that corrupts everything.
I have not yet digested this article (just skimmed it, in fact), but, since I’ve started questioning the “high/folk/pop” division of aesthetics, I figure that this article might be a helpful contribution to my thinking on the matter.
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