EPISODE 100!!! We’re celebrating this achievement with a different style of show. We’re talking all about hymns and music. What does music do to our brains? How can it be used for benevolent or, conversely, malevolent, purposes? Why is music easier to remember than just about any other media we create or consume? We also discuss some history of hymns and folk music in the Mormon culture and tradition as markers for significant events or used to ensure conformity or battle public perceptions. We round out the episode with some parodies of hymns we wrote to help break the spell!
Show Links:
Hymn Parodies by Bryce & Shannon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1095C1WDVWjOU0I2LVa7bm0Ob-r9e3EORPqJavZd7gd4/edit?usp=sharing
We were on episode #333 of Serious Inquiries Only!: https://seriouspod.com/
Music, Rhythm, and the Brain: https://brainworldmagazine.com/music-rhythm-brain/
The Power of Music: MInd Control, by Rhythmic Sound: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-power-of-music-mind-control-by-rhythmic-sound/
Why Does Music Give You Chills? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51745/why-does-music-give-us-chills
How Cult Leaders Use Music for Mind Control: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/206497/cult-music-mind-control-brainwash
Genetically Modified Skeptic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btz0ocXDeg
Your Brain on Music: A Popular class breaks down how our brain responds to music: https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/your-brain-on-music/
Your Brain on Music | Alan Harvey | TEDxPerth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFFwy5fwYI
What the Latter-Day Saint Hymn ‘Love at Home’ has to do with Blackface: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/06/12/what-latter-day-saint/
Bryce’s links:
Mormon Songs by Levette J. Davidson
https://www.jstor.org/stable/537180
History of hymns
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/hymns?lang=eng
Emma Smith hymn compilation revelation
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-july-1830-c-dc-25/2
Emma 1835 hymnal
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/collection-of-sacred-hymns-1835/8
1880s Psalmody
https://archive.org/details/latterdaysaintsp00unse/page/n90/mode/2up?view=theater
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