Roots-Reggae Music Genre, Christian Urban-Pop Music, the "Worldly" Culture Public Square and the Antagonisms and Contradictions of the Human Condition

Bob Marley (Photo credit: Monosnaps)

What is the difference between the Roots-Reggae music genre of the likes of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and contemporary Christian Urban-Pop music?
The Roots-Reggae music genre of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh e.t.c, is philosophically fundamentally Judeo-Christian.  It is biblical in nature specifically Old Testament polemics with a tint of
 the New Testament wit of Jesus Christ.  Contemporary Christian Urban-Pop music is also philosophically, fundamentally Judeo-Christan but tilted heavily towards the New Testament.  But it is also a stilted, starchy souless attempt at finding cultural resonance, a shameless mimicry of it's  cultural antithesis. Christian Urban-Pop music is a created genre for the specific purpose of competing with "worldly" popular music as a proselytizing tool.  Yet the critique against this utility is Christian Urban-Pop music fails to do so, while it remains a niche outsider decrying the purported immorality and irreligion of the "worldly" culture public.

On the other hand the Roots-Reggae music genre of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh e.t.c, enjoys extraordinary support and resonance among the target audience it shares with Christian Urban-Pop  music.  This presents a paradoxical question:  Why does the religious critique of Roots-Reggae music speak so movingly to the "worldly" culture public square, while the proselytizing logic of christian Urban-Pop music, caricaturizes itself?  The answer should be sought for in pretensions.  The Roots-Reggae music genre of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer e.t.c, speaks to the historical and universal injustices of the Human Condition as long as it's biblical contextual polemics is homogeneously just and equitable while exposing the hypocrisies and injustices of the Political- Economy status quo. Christian Urban Pop music on the other hand finds itself in a weird place called sanctimony: representing the hypocrisies and injustices it's very own Judeo-Christian medium origins Wars against.  While it's message is idealistically reduced to the cult of bibiliopersonalization worship and aphorisms at the expense of the organic insight and objectivity conveyed by Roots-Reggae music.

While the "worldly" culture public square struggles with the antagonisms and contradictions of the Human Condition, under the Love Thy Neighbor polemic.  Christian Urban-Pop quixotically flails at the wind mills of the same sex marriage and the abortion question.

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