Blog 7 - Fellowship Church

For my music ethnography, I visited Fellowship Church in Grapevine for their worship service. I normally attend First Baptist Church of Richardson, but I wanted to analyze a different type of worship other than what I am normally accustomed to. As opposed to normal Sunday Church services, they have a service on Saturday night at 6:00 p.m.

Their songs are not the popular songs that are known in Christianity, but instead, they make their own songs. They have songs on I-tunes under the artist name of Fellowship church. They contain the same elements as most other Christian worship bands with a guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, drums and singers. However, they do not have the same lead singer every service. They have a group of singers and they switch off in leading. Here is the link to their worship team.

http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/tag/dex-alexander/

The time and space makes a difference in the audience because the Saturday service provides a way out for those who have a tougher time getting up in the morning and therefore, attracts many young people. Because of this, their service is much more upbeat and lively than what you would normally think a church service would be. Like many other music cultures we have studied, the audience here participates, if they choose, with the music. It is very common to see many of the front-row people dancing and jumping to the music, while people further back will raise their hands or close their eyes. Sometimes, people might even just shout out the words instead of singing, but a definition of singing does fluctuate.

Here is an example of their music style in the Fellowship Church culture.