what is Mormon music anyway?
Whenever this happens our guitarist likes to jokingly reveal an apparently well-kept secret: “See that piano over there?” he asks. “If you open it up and look inside, youll find ’em: strings! It just uses little hammers, we use our fingers.” While the FCMAs official definitions of styles are useful for voting, they dont hold a lot meaning for the average saint who simply wants to hear a good song one thats just right for the time of day and day of week. And the appropriateness of the style is going to vary from person to person. I had a group of Average Joe listeners in a BYU journalism class a year or so ago that produced an E-zine about LDS music. As part of the planning process, the students wanted to define LDS music so they would know what their boundaries were, so to speak. After some spirited debate about styles and formats, it really came down to just two basic categories as far as they were concerned: 1) Music made by Mormons for Mormons, and 2) Music made for everyone that ju
