{"id":4517,"date":"2008-04-22T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:45:28","slug":"changing-mormon-musical-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/04\/changing-mormon-musical-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Mormon Musical Aesthetics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t blog about it at the time, although I thought about it. But now it’s up on You Tube, so here goes. In 2006, New Years Eve fell on a Sunday, and the Church — in a laudable attempt to give the youth something to do that was consistent with the Sabbath — put on a huge New Year’s program at the Conference Center that was broadcast over the Church’s satellite system. The program contained the the standard sort of fare for such Major Mormon Events: large choirs — which now include a full orchestra — and sermons. All well and good. And then there was this number by Utah-based Mormon folk singer Peter Breinholt:<\/p>\n

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I thought it was surprising because I have always thought that the one, hard-core, non-negotiable rule in all Mormon meetings regardless of forum was “Thou Shalt Not Have Guitars.” Of course, this number may have been a one off event, allowed because of the odd dynamic created by the odd Sabbath-New-Year’s-Eve-Party-For-Youth-Fire-Side dynamic. On the other hand, as a law prof, I can’t help but think in terms of precedent. And here we have it: guitar music, in the Conference Center, in the presence of the prophet no less. In 2103, when some BYU student is doing a Master’s Thesis on the rise of pop-folk music in Mormon services, I suspect that this will be marked as the moment when the first cracks appeared in the old-aesthetic line against guitars in sacrament meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t blog about it at the time, although I thought about it. But now it’s up on You Tube, so here goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}