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FFM 2009
by Calvin College Student Activities Office
Keynote and workshop audio from the Festival of Faith & Music 2009 at Calvin College.
Episodes
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Toward a Theology of Independent Music - Kevin Erickson
What is independent music? Where did it come from and why does it matter? Can creative choices about the production and distribution of art be spaces of cultural & social change as powerful as the works themselves? What would Gustavo Guiterrez think of Fugazi? Drawing on insights from Andy…
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When the Last Days Come - Micah Lott
Over the past two decades, John Darnielle of the The Mountain Goats has crafted a remarkable collection of songs, distinguished by lyrics of high literary quality. One notable feature of Darnielle’s song-writing is his frequent use of eschatological language and imagery. This paper examines the...
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"Don't Let Me Explode" - Matthew Carillo-Vincent
In linking our struggles in faith with the rigid demands of gender, The Hold Steady’s 2005 album Separation Sunday offers a conversation about ethics and empathy as a new way of thinking through the politics of masculinity at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Hot Soft Lights - Erin Keane
The Hold Steady’s songs explore the struggles of ripping highs and exquisite, sketchy lows of clever kids, townies and a host of apocryphal characters in their hungry—and often violent—search for grace, their fatal flaws and dubious virtues given equal spiritual weight. An ornate thread of...
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Hell Yeah! - David Horace Perkins
For creators and performers of American or Southern Gothic music, symbols of stereotyped Southern religion—emotionally charged revival, errant preachers, the amen corner, mourner’s bench, serpent handling, curses, damnation and divine retribution—find a place of prominence not only as fodder for...
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I Be's Troubled - Stephen J. Nichols
Blues music, with one foot in the church and the world of the African American spirituals and another foot in the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, exhibits a profound theological interpretation of life. The music of Muddy Waters, Charley Patton and Robert Johnson all has something to teach...
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Music + Faith + Commerce? - Trey Many
In this workshop, Trey Many discusses the odd impact of having one’s faith associated with their music career, mainly focusing on Christianity and its role in popular music. Topics include the demonization of secular music within the church, the possible motivations for musicians have for…
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The Language of Faith - Tim Regan-Porter
How do we talk about faith to those outside the faith community, as well as within it, in ways that promote understanding? It’s not just the vocal firebrands of “the religious right” that alienate. Too often, the language we use in everyday conversation comes across as foreign or inauthentic. The...
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Music & Meaning - Robert Nordling & Benita Wolters-Fredlund
We are saturated with music, and not only from what we intentionally listen to. Advertisements, sound tracks, commercials, car radio, our iPods set on shuffle as we work out…all these sources of music feed (force feed?) us an almost constant stream of music. But just what is music telling us?...
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Gender Inequities, Community and Change in Electronic/Dance Music - Rebekah Farrugia
This workshop will examine the everyday assumptions, language, actions and texts that situate women on the margins of electronic/dance music (E/DM) culture. Drawing on five years of interviews with female DJs and producers, Farrugia explores how their stories both structure and are structured by...
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How to Write a Great Song in Five (Not So) Easy Steps - Over the Rhine
Every songwriter has to determine some criteria for doing his or her best work. How do you know if your own songs are approaching what you actually care about as a writer? Detweiler and Bergquist talk about what they're most drawn to as songwriters and explore what makes a song potentially great.
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Junkyard Orchestration - Nathan Johnson
This workshop provides a behind-the-scenes look at composing music for independent film. Using audio clips and images from his recent original scores for the acclaimed neo-noir film Brick and the upcoming The Brothers Bloom, Johnson explores specific creative challenges regarding structure,...
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“Clenched Fists, Black Eyes” - Mary McCampbell
In this session, Mary McCampbell examines the role of anger and lament in the music of The Sex Pistols, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, The Psalters and Sufjan Stevens. McCampbell also explores whether a punk rock aesthetic/message can inform our theologies of worship as we ask the...
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Worshiping Worship (Worshiping Ourselves) - Lenny Smith
A young college student is walking across campus, holding hands with his sweetheart. “I am beginning to think you really don't know me. After all, I have needs. I study all week and by the weekend, I need a break! Let me just go hiking on Saturday, like I planned, and on Sunday we can do the bike...
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Kenneth Thomas Interview by Chris Mills
In a conversation moderated by local DJ Chris Mills, Thomas talks about his story, spirituality, his work as a DJ and the communal nature of dance music.
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A Junkyard Journey - Julie Lee
Julie Lee is a visual artist as well as a singer and songwriter. She studied painting from the age of eight, but has found her voice as a collage artist in the junkyard, taking from the old and discarded to make something new that redemptively speaks to the present from the past. In this…
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Radio Gaga - Jude Adam
Is radio still the key to getting music to the masses, or a dinosaur killed off by the digital age? Tips on how to get your songs heard (and played) by taste-makers and radio programmers and how to keep your audience coming back for more.
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Loving Christ, Hating Christian Rock - Jessica Hopper and David Bazan
Music journalist Jessica Hopper and David Bazan (Pedro The Lion) discuss his lyrics, coming up in and out of the Christian music scene, reframing his faith in music and what it's like to be an artist straddling secular and non-secular worlds.
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Taking It to the Streets - Jacque Rhodes
Would you be surprised if you picked up the latest Snoop Dogg CD, flipped it over to read the titles and found a track called, "Jesus Is My Lord and Savior?” It is common practice, and even expected, for a bona fide pop musician or rap artist to include "the gospel song” on his or her album. In...
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Can "Christian" Music be Saved? - Grant Elgersma
One might argue that words are ill-equipped to capture what music is, which is the reason people are drawn to musical experience in the first place…so why try to stamp music with any kind of label or category? Well, it seems we just can’t help ourselves. This presentation explores how Christians...
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Thank God the Music Industry is in Trouble - Charlie Peacock
Long time recording artist, and former music industry executive Charlie Peacock reflects on the seismic changes in the music industry and their effect on the creation of music. Peacock contrasts old music business models with new models of musical faithfulness and forecasts a way forward to good...
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Is it Really so Strange? - Bifrost Arts
This workshop critically examines the relevance of sacred music within popular culture, and in particular, pop music. Pensak and Wardell briefly survey the history of hymnody and sacred music with a focus on the deep roots of the sacred in popular music today. Part one focuses on the rich lyrical...
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Church--But for the Grace of God, There Go I - Baby Dee
An interactive, musical conversation with Baby Dee moderated by Adam Wolpa, professor of art at Calvin College.
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Spare Change in a Stradivarius Case - Joan Van Dessel
The primary objective of this workshop is to offer leading questions that encourage musicians to explore how they might further integrate practical aspects of their faith with their artistic interests. Discussion includes intersections between Biblical calling and musicianship that have been...
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Creation, Fall, Redemption, CCM - Terry Mattingly
Want to start a war? Try to work out an authoritative definition for this all too common term, "Christian music." Nearly two decades after Amy Grant recorded "Baby, Baby," Christians can still work up a lather in the culture wars, and worship wars, linked to popular music. Nationally syndicated...
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Creative Journey Toward the City of God - Makoto Fujimura
Makoto Fujimura shares from the process of his art, his writing, his experience with church planting projects and the founding of International Arts Movement to discuss the role of creativity in cultivating a movement mindset. He also draws from Japanese culture and art history to connect how God...
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Survival of the Freshest - David Dark
David Dark leads a discussion on our understanding of prophetic traditions, broadly defined, and how the reworking (or remixing) of words and images is part of the crucial task of actually receiving a witness (avowedly religious or otherwise). If a song is an ethical summons, how do we know when...
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Jesus is My Mixtape - Cathleen Falsani
Cathleen Falsani had her first epiphany at age twelve while listening to U2's song "Gloria" for the first time in a friend's living room. And, not unlike Rob Gordon in High Fidelity, she can trace her spiritual evolution in the songs she was listening to at the time, and, perhaps, that were…
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The Forms of Excellence - Andy Crouch
Andy Crouch lectures from the piano at the Festival of Faith & Music 2009.
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Craig Finn Interview by Marty Garner
Music journalist Marty Garner interviews The Hold Steady's Craig Finn.
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Hope on a Tightrope - Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West speaks at the Festival of Faith & Music 2009.
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Lupe Fiasco Interview by Cornel West
In an historic first meeting, Cornel West interviews Lupe Fiasco at the Festival of Faith & Music 2009 at Calvin College.
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Keynote and workshop audio from the Festival of Faith & Music 2009 at Calvin College.
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