⁷Too often, advocates for “high culture” or “pop culture” worship music try to make their advocacy a matter of theological principle, when their conviction is really more a matter of their own tastes and cultural preferences. For example, when pressed, HW advocates admit that jazz is not really a product of commercial pop culture but qualifies as a high culture medium that grew out of genuine folk roots, requires great skill and craft, and can express a fuller range of human experience than rock and pop music. See, for instance, Calvin M. Johansson, Music and Ministry: A Biblical Counterpoint (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1984), 59–62, on “Folk Music and Jazz.” On their own principles, then, there is no reason for traditionalists not to allow jazz music in worship, yet I see no HW worship proponents encouraging jazz liturgies! Why not? I think that they are going on their own aesthetic preferences.