David Horace Perkins

DAVID HORACE PERKINS

CURRENT Associate Director: Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture STATUS program at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Teaching: Vanderbilt Divinity School (courses in religion and culture / religion in the arts) Writing: see Publications/Forthcoming (below) Music: Ongoing concert performances and recording of material for late- 2015 album release. (www.listentodaveperkins.com)

B.A. (Georgia College, 1971) EDUCATION M.Div. (Vanderbilt University, 2002)

Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, 2011)

MUSIC Film Score Composer: “Deadline” (Release Date - 4/6/2012) Record Producer (sample list): Over The Rhine, Films for Radio (Virgin, 2001); Newsboys, Fad of the Land (Remix) (Sparrow, 2002); Taylor Sorensen, The Overflow (Rocketown, 2004) Gospel Music Association Dove Award Nominee, 2005; Mattie Groves (Little Bean, 1999); Hayseed, Melic (Sire, 1998); Mike Rayburn, Better Days (Dry River, 1997); Never Say Dinosaur (compilation album, Starsong/EMI, 1995, various tracks); Walter Eugenes, Beautiful (Starsong/EMI 1994); Passafist (REX/Relativity, 1993); Pam Mark Hall, Personal Rescue (Storeyville, 1993); Steve Taylor, I Predict 1990 (Word, 1988) Dove Award Nominee, 1988; Randy Stonehill, The Wild Frontier (Myrrh, 1987); others. Recording Artist: Dave Perkins, The Innocence (What?/A&M, 1987); Chagall Guevara (MCA, 1991); Passafist (REX/Relativity/Sony, 1993 (Dove Award Nominee, 1994); Dave Perkins, Pistol City Holiness (Lugnut, 2010); Deadline: Music From The Movie (Lugnut, 2012). Recording Guitarist: Carole King, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Charles (video), Guy Clark, Bobby Bare, Little River Band, Vassar Clements, Beth Nielsen Chapman, DC Talk, Newsboys, Willie Nelson (film), Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, David Allen Coe, Margaret Becker, Amy Grant, numerous others. Touring Guitarist: Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Vassar Clements, Papa John Creach, Chagall Guevara, Mystic Meditations, Passafist, Ultra-Fix

PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming: “Music, Culture Industry, and the Shaping of Charismatic Worship: An Autobiographical/Conversational Engagement” Spirit of Praise: Music in Global Charismatic and Pentecostal Worship, Amos Yong and Monique Ingalls, eds. (Penn State University Press) “Dire Wave: Brian Wilson’s “Til I Die” Faith, Hope, Love: The Theology of The Beach Boys, Jeffrey Siler, ed. (Forthcoming on Cascade Books) Sin Galaxy (and other confessions), (writing in process) A collection of personal essays in musical-spiritual memoir.

Articles: “Praise and Worship Movement,” The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Cambridge University Press "Tragedy and the True Aim of God" (Creative Transformation, a publication of The Center for Process Studies, Claremont Graduate School, 3/2000) "What is Worship?" (Contemporary Christian Music Magazine, 9/2001)

Major Conference Papers: "Cosmic Cowboy Christ: The Cinematic Christology of Poet/Singer Judee Sill" (American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 11/2001) "Spiritual Aphrodisiac: Praise and Worship Music and the Re-Enchantment of Western Culture" (American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 11/2003) "Myth, Mission, Money: Worship Music as Cultural Commodity" (Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean, Emory University, 2/2004) "Spiritual Aphrodisiac: Praise and Worship Music and the Re-Enchantment of Western Culture" (Graduate Research Day, Vanderbilt University, 3/24/2004) "Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity" (American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 11/20/2004) “Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity” (Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Princeton University, 2/19/2005) “Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity” (Pushing Boundaries: Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, 4/1/2005) “The Last Cathedral: Georg Simmel, Sacred Music, and the Marketplace” (Harvard Center for the Humanities Conference - Culture and Modernity: Georg Simmel in Context, Harvard University, 4/17, 2005) “Kingdoms in the Air: ‘Morning Cheer’ and Early Media Evangelism in Philadelphia,” (American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 11/2005 “The Last Cathedral: Georg Simmel, Sacred Music, and the Marketplace” (American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 11/2005) “Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity” (Society for Ethnomusicology: Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 11/ 2005). “Hell Yeah! Pairing Southern Religion and Punk/Postmodern Aesthetics in the Construction of Southern Gothic Music” (Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Yale University, 3/9/07 “Hell Yeah! Pairing Southern Religion and Punk/Postmodern Aesthetics in the Construction of Southern Gothic Music” (Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion: Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 3/16/07) “Hell Yeah! Pairing Southern Religion and Punk/Postmodern Aesthetics in the Construction of Southern Gothic Music” (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 11/2010.

Music: Over 75 songs commercially recorded by a variety of artists across several genres. In addition, selections in film soundtracks and compilation albums.

RECENT National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, ASCAP, American PROFESSIONAL Federation of Musicians; American Academy of Religion, Society of MEMBERSHIPS Ethnomusicology, Americana Music Association, Gospel Music Association, Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, International Arts Movement Inducted: Inaugural Class of The Academy of Distinguished Alumni and Friends HONORS AND by Georgia College and State University (11/2012) AWARDS http://foundation.gcsu.edu/academy

Honored: Alumni of the Year by Phi Kappa Phi - Georgia College and State University (2011) David Horace Perkins [email protected] 1701 Green Hills Drive Nashville, TN 37215 615-385-0220