Music and the Broken Word -- Signature Books

Music and the Broken Word
Songs for Alternate Voices
PAUL TOSCANO and CAL GRONDAHL
Paperback. 96 Pages. / 0-941214-99-0 / ~~$8.95~~ $4.00

For singers who like zingers, these hilarious contemporary lyrics by Paul Toscano, illustrated by cartoonist Calvin Grondahl, will leave anyone with a funnybone in stitches. The tunes are familiar, but the themes are new. Some are light-hearted and poke fun at everyday events, while others are edged with satire and parody. Titles include "Ere You Left Your Room This Morning, Did You Think to Shave?" "My! How the Women are Raging," "How Numerous the Commands," "There is Sunstone in the Mail Today," "Marry On!" "Mormons Have the Holiest Architects," "Let Us All be Faith-Promoting," and "We are Spending, Daily Spending." Music and the Broken Word will delight lovers of Mormon humor and dismay ward choristers.

Paul James Toscano is an attorney who serves as a Standing Bankruptcy Trustee for the District of Utah. A former staff editor at the Ensign magazine, he is the author of Gospel Letters to a Mormon Missionary; Invisible Religion in the Public Schools; The Sanctity of Dissent; The Sacrament of Doubt; and Secularism, Neutrality, and the Supreme Court; co-author of Music and the Broken Word: Songs for Alternate Voices, and Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology; and is a founder and past co-president of the Mormon Alliance.

Calvin Grondahl is the editorial cartoonist for the Standard Examiner in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of Faith Promoting Rumors, Freeway to Perfection, Marketing Precedes the Miracle, Sunday's Foyer, Utah and All That Jazz, and Utah: Sex and Travel Guide, as well as the illustrator of Saintspeak: The Mormon Dictionary and Music and the Broken Word: Songs for Alternate Voices. His first employment after graduating from Brigham Young University (and the campus Daily Universe) was with the LDS church-owned Deseret News, where he stayed for several years before landing his spot with the Examiner.