This fantastic resurrection hymn takes me all the way back to Sunday night services, with the choruses of the hymns taking flight, tambourines playing, the drums picking up the pace, hands clapping (some double-clapping), the Hammond vocalising, the bass thrumming, the choir on the podium in harmony with the people, everyone - the leaders and the saints all praising, all worshipping, all rejoicing. There is a wonderful West Indian, Jamaican lilt to the style of the music as well as the praise and worship. What a powerful and appealing expression (as so many others are). This music is part of the history and tradition of the majority black churches of the UK, predominantly Jamaican/West Indian at that time, which fused traditional hymns with the fervour and flavour of the people's (mainly) West-Indian heritage. Times have changed and there are now many more countries, cultures and continents represented within the christian landscpe in the UK today, not least the phenomenal growth of African led churches.
The influence of the caribbean was not the only one that existed on us as children: the hymns were European and American. We sang U.S. gospel, West Indian, British and American choruses - Jim Reeves and all the country and Western gospel singers we or our parents loved; songs from all over the globe: It was a rich and extremely varied melting-pot of music and people - not a mono-culture - and all the better for being so. We were so blessed (and still are)!
I can just see the song leader at the pulpit and feel the waves of joy in the presence of the Lord that flooded over the soul, as the songs took off and we lost ourselves in Him. Pentecostal Hymnal, Best Of All and Redemption Hymnal - thank you. Sometimes it's the old time gospel songs/hymns that go the deepest.
Having said that, the chief and foremost identifiable 'culture' is that of the cultivation of the presence of God through prayer, praise, worship and the Word - enjoying a personal relationship with Him - and not simply a style of music. The dialogue of worship to God, of being in the presence of God, is a language that all hearts which love God share. Spirit filled worship is universal and goes beyond communities and differences between people and unites believers everywhere.
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