S3:E2 - The Devil's Tunes: SDA Views on Music

Support the Show • Did you ever get scolded for the music you played in church? We're diving into traditional Seventh-day Adventist attitudes toward music and talking about my own personal experience with music while growing up in the church. We'll also cover historical Protestant views on organs, early Adventist resistance to musical instruments, and the silly debate around Christian Contemporary Music.
-Santiago

Sources:
SDAs didn't use instruments for first 3 decades
First documented use of an organ in 1877
E.J. Waggoner "Solo singing has no rightful place..."
Ira Sankey hymns called the "devil's tunes"
Alma Blackmon quote re: White elitist professors
Who is Heinrich Schenker and why should you care?
Music Theory and the White Racial Frame
Music Theory and White Supremacy
Jacob Aranza Interview
Rock Is Dead, Thank God
IFPI 2023 Global Music Report
Spotify Top Trends of 2023
Who killed the CCM industry?

SDA propaganda given to me:
10 SHOCKING "FACTS" (BS) About CCM
Inside Rock Music by Vance Ferrell
Ted Wilson Facebook Post
Seventh-day Adventist Philosophy of Music

Recommended reading:
The Devil’s Music - How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll

00:00 Intro
00:16 My Background with Music
06:28 Local Cultures Define Worship Styles
07:47 Protestants Hated the Organ?
10:21 Early Adventists Didn't Use Instruments
15:18 Racist Attitudes
17:58 Music Theory in the US
19:31 Rock and CCM
21:17 Anti-CCM SDA YouTuber
24:50 Inside Rock Music
28:02 Jacob Aranza, Satanic Panic Provocateur
34:18 Recap and Outro

Full Transcripts, resources and more: hell.bio/notes 
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