ABSTRACT
Catholic musical practices experienced great transformations following Vatican Council II which advocated for inculturation. Vatican II’s Constitution on Sacred Liturgy stressed the need for people in mission lands to utilize indigenous modes of expression including languages, songs, musical instruments, and rituals provided they adhered to the Catholic doctrines. With empirical studies conducted in Uganda and utilizing comparative examples from two East African countries, Rwanda and Kenya, the author examines the implications and relevance of the inculturation process as instituted by Vatican II in a glocal era, advocating a postcolonial perspective, examining inculturation as a ‘top down hybridity’ that both asserts the Vatican’s influence on local Catholic practice and mediates glocal leanings to musical and liturgical practice.
