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 MORMONS 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 Mozarts 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 1980S

Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith

CHRISTIAN MUSIC: THE 1990S

Establishment of Soundscan Devastated classical music Rise of Country and Christian music Gospel Music Association Jars of Clay, dc Talk

GOSPEL MUSIC: THE 2000S

Move away from Christian Music as a genre Doesnt necessarily signal loss of faith (but it might)

MODERN LDS MUSIC

Childrens songbook Saturdays Warrior Michael McLean EFY

CAUSING A STIR
Albums that pushed the boundaries

LDS MUSIC: CURRENT STATE

Mainstreaming of LDS musicians/music