Radio Gaga - Jude Adam

Radio Gaga - Jude Adam

Author: Calvin College Student Activities Office April 10, 2009 Duration: 59:15
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.

Captured during a vibrant weekend on campus, this collection offers a direct auditory pass to the Festival of Faith & Music held in 2009. The FFM 2009 podcast, presented by the Calvin College Student Activities Office, archives the rich conversations and performances that defined that year's gathering. You'll hear keynote speakers grapple with the complex intersections of artistic expression, belief, and cultural engagement, their talks preserved with the immediacy of the original event. Alongside these major addresses, the series includes intimate workshop sessions where musicians, critics, and thinkers delved into the craft and philosophy behind creating meaningful work. This isn't a retrospective commentary, but the original audio itself-a chance to experience the unfiltered discussions about how faith animates and challenges the worlds of music and performing arts. For anyone curious about the dialogue between spirituality and creativity, this podcast serves as a valuable historical record and a source of enduring inspiration, straight from the source. The episodes invite deep listening, offering perspectives that feel as relevant now as they were when first shared with an audience of students, artists, and seekers.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 32

FFM 2009
Podcast Episodes
Toward a Theology of Independent Music - Kevin Erickson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:57
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…
When the Last Days Come - Micah Lott [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:24
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 f…
"Don't Let Me Explode" - Matthew Carillo-Vincent [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:20
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 masculini…
Hot Soft Lights - Erin Keane [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:38
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…
Hell Yeah! - David Horace Perkins [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:51
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, damnat…
I Be's Troubled - Stephen J. Nichols [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:02
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…
Music + Faith + Commerce? - Trey Many [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:21
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 mus…
The Language of Faith - Tim Regan-Porter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:43
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 languag…
Music & Meaning - Robert Nordling & Benita Wolters-Fredlund [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:55
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?)…