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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I'm uploading this as a token of gratitude for all you listeners showing up for 100 episodes! Plus, people have been asking for our review on the main feed but UtBoH is just too big a topic for the regular show, so here's a standalone episode taken from our YouTube broadcast!
This is the next installment of our quarterly live Q&A broadcasts! We have our lovely patrons to thank over at https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod for helping us reach our goal to make these possible.
This time around we're reviewing the new Hulu series, Under the Banner of Heaven, based on Jon Krakauer's book by the same title. SPOILER ALERT!!!
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Hey it’s Pride Month! We all hear about Prop 8 and how the LDS church paid a boatload of money to make it go their way. We thought the actions the church took in the past which led to these actions needed to be brought to light. We also discuss Patriarch Joseph Fielding Smith who was called to the office while known to be gay, then was fired from the job once the bigots spoke out against him. Then, in our Media section, Shannon brings you a large list of books you should look into written by Mary Renault. And finally, we bring you some excellent news out of New York
Show notes:
Links
Memories of Being Gay at BYU by Earl Kofoed
LGBTQIAP+ history in America
https://www.lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/
Chronology of Events Patriarch Joseph Fielding Smith’s Homosexuality
Queering the LDS Archive by K. Mohrman
History of Sodomy Laws
LDS Officials Seek to Join Hawaii Suit
https://www.deseret.com/1995/4/14/19169785/3-lds-officials-seek-to-join-hawaii-suit
Mormon campaign against gay marriage in Alaska
https://www.lds-mormon.com/gaylds-shtml/
The Mormon Proposition by Doe Daughtrey
https://www3.trincoll.edu/csrpl/RINVol11No3/Mormon%20Proposition.htm
LDS Cash Carries Gay-Marriage Fight
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96367929/lds-cash-carries-gay-marriage-fight/
Improvement Era 113th semiannual conference report
https://archive.org/details/improvementera4511unse/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater
Prelude to the National “Defense of Marriage” Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities by D. Michael Quinn
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45226709?seq=11
Single men a “menace to society”?
https://www.ldsliving.com/are-single-lds-men-really-a-menace-to-society/s/76642
MOGP
Mary Renault: A Biography, by Daniel Sweetman
Books and series by Mary Renault:
Purposes of Love
The Friendly Young Ladies
Kind are her Answers
Return to Night
North Face
The Charioteer
The Last of the WIne
The Lion in the Gateway
The Nature of Alexander (Non-fiction)
The Mask of Apollo
The Praise Singer
(Theseus series) The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea
(Alexander the Great series) Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games
Happy News: “X” Gender Markers Coming to New York State IDs This June: https://www.them.us/story/x-gender-markers-coming-to-new-york-state-ids-this-june
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The end is neigh at hand, or so Abrahamic believers have been saying for over 2000 years. Mormonism has its own special brand of the apocalypse and endtimes. This launches us into the next installment of the Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie. He talks about the endtimes as well, along with the role of the Book of Mormon. The final chapter we cover he leans deep into the white supremacy of Mormon theology. Be prepared, because we weren’t. Then we wrap the show with an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune from a long-time listener and patron, Dave Winslow, about the problems with violent rhetoric coming from the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Be sure to tune in to our next live hangout on June 6th at 6 p.m. MST wherein we’ll review Under the Banner of Heaven. Supporters at Patreon gain access to join the conversation on air!
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Show notes:
Links:
View of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith 1823 https://archive.org/details/ViewOfTheHebrews1823EthanSmith/page/n81/mode/2up?view=theater
Hope of Israel by Manasseh Ben Israel 1650 http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1650hope.htm
Stick of Joseph flyer Dec 1844 https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-2-document-3-stick-of-joseph-1844/1
Happy News: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/05/19/dave-winslow-lds-leaders/
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