dayton presentation
TRANSCRIPT
MY BACKGROUND
• Film major
• 2003-2004 General Manager (President) of Excel
Entertainment / Highway Records / Lumen Records
• 2005-2007 General Manager of Shadow Mountain
Records / Deseret Book Music
ARTISTS REPRESENTED
• Alex Boye
• Jenny Oaks Baker
• Cherie Call
• Kenneth Cope
• Jule De Azevedo
• Jenny Jordan Frogley
• Mindy Gledhill
• Shane Jackman
• Jericho Road
• William Joseph
• Gladys Knight and the
Saints Unified Voices
• Michael McLean
• Nashville Tribute Band
• Jenny Phillips
• Greg Simpson
• Hilary Weeks
MUSIC: A MORMON’S PERSPECTIVE
• Psychological effects of music
• A history of modern Christian music
• A history of modern Mormon music
• LDS views and thoughts
THE MOZART EFFECT
• Landmark 1993 study in Nature played Mozart’s music
shortly before a spatial IQ test
• Test scores increased by 10-15 points
• Classical music lovers everywhere rejoiced
THE MOZART EFFECT
• Governor Zell Miller (of Georgia)
promises to increase intelligence
in the state
• Baby Mozart sells millions of
copies to hopeful Moms
• Sewage Plant in Treuenbrietzen,
GER plays Mozart to break down
biomass faster
THE MOZART EFFECT
• Some researchers able to replicate study, others unable
to do so
• Effects last less than 45 minutes
• Only applicable to spatial reasoning
THE MOZART EFFECT
• Later studies have shown that musical training does
have a long-term effect
• Difficult to determine causal relationship
MUSIC AS AN ACTION
• Ether 6:9 And they did sing praises unto the Lord; yea,
the brother of Jared did sing praises unto the Lord, and
he did thank and praise the Lord all the day long; and
when the night came, they did not cease to praise the
Lord.
HOW GREAT THOU ART
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy Hand hath made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy pow'r throughout the universe displayed;
Then sings my soul, my Saviour, God, to Thee,
How great Thou art! How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Saviour, God, to Thee,
How great Thou art! How great Thou art!
MODERN CHRISTIAN MUSIC
• Gregorian chants (music by the clergy)
• Renaissance / Classical (Music by the elites)
• Protestant Christian Music (Mormon music parallel)
– Little distinguishing between secular and sacred
tunes
• Negro Spirituals
• Southern Gospel
MODERN CHRISTIAN MUSIC
At some point, rock bands stop being polite young men
in matching suits and become drug-addled, free-loving,
infrequent bath-taking hippies, and the music gets more
interesting. The hippies realize that taking tons of acid
has not actually made their lives quantifiably better and
become disillusioned; some of them become lawyers,
but some find Christianity to be a more satisfying
alternative, establishing a kind of counter-counterculture
called the Jesus Movement. These people (also called
Jesus Freaks) are still hippies, but with less drugs and
sex and more Jesus.
CHRISTIAN MUSIC: THE 1990’S
• Establishment of Soundscan
• Devastated classical music
• Rise of Country and Christian music
• Gospel Music Association
• Jars of Clay, dc Talk
GOSPEL MUSIC: THE 2000’S
• Move away from “Christian Music” as a genre
• Doesn’t necessarily signal loss of faith (but it might)