The music culture I have been studying is the Frisco Community Bible Church Youth Worship Team. Some aesthetic qualities are the willingness to help and being well dressed, usually in suits, dresses, and other formal attire. The role for these musicians is to prepare the congregation of the English Frisco Community Bible Church hearts and minds for the sermon. Usually they perform monthly on Sundays at 11:00am.
Much of the music choices can be found online, on iTunes, at live concerts, and in stores. The performers mostly perform as a hobby, though they know and perform with other instruments competitively. There are no restrictions on who participates, in the audience, but who serves has a limitation. The limitation is one must be a Christian in order to serve, because in order to serve he/she must do it for the right reasons. No one actually makes their own music in this culture, but they meet to arrange the order and way the music will be performed. The performance is open to all to sing along, so there is a substantial amount of audience participation. This music culture has a separate session where they welcome the whole congregation.
The text has the purpose of bringing the congregation to sing and get us in the right mind set. The last song is usually used to reflect the sermon. Various Christian composers’ songs are picked, but usually the leadership’s tastes combine with the audience’s preferences are kept in mind, also. Since this can’t usually be done in one song, five or six songs are chosen to appeal to the different age groups.
I was lucky to have one of the AV members show me where the performances are displayed online in his Xanga page.
http://crazy2idiot.xanga.com/audio/
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