The global culture presents a new type of civilization, multinational society, which reaches over the national, state and historical limits. The local culture forms itself as unique in the communities and subcultures. The music becomes the most important artistic communication form in the new millennium. At the concrete examples we try to point out the insensitive way of using the music in the programs of the television channels in Slovakia in a year 2006. It is especially obvious in relation to devotional music. The meaning of the liturgical music reveals in the aesthetic, social, revival and cultural aspects. Praise and worship, as a type of gospel music, present a kind of local subculture, example of spiritual communion, which is able to compete with global musical culture.
Metylovice used to be a village in which the leather handicraft prevailed since the 17th century, changing the location's nature at all. The sudden and in fact unexpected decline of leather belt production and group of belt producers meant a great change in the appearance and structure of the village. Metylovice lost its regional exclusiveness and it blended with the nature of surrounding villages to a certain extent. Based on the extinct phenomenon of local leather belt production the process of the village community self-identification began gradually. It resulted in a strong relation to the past reality within a complicated process of forgetting and remembering in the course of the past fifty to sixty years. The specific extinct phenomenon of leather handicraft with whip production gained new qualities in the constructive process of collective memory strengthening. In the above case, the transformed ideal of leather-belts producing Metylovice plays a significant role in the development of strong local identification of the inhabitants with their village and its history.
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