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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Southern gospel music |
| Genre | Christian |
| Founder | Glen Payne J.D.Sumner James Blackwood |
| Headquarters | Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, United States |
| Key people | Raymond Brooks Eric Blackwood David Sutton Eric Bennett Lisa Fuller Ron Blackwood jr Daniel Justice Martina Blackwood |
| Owner | Southern Gospel Media |
| Parent | Southern Gospel Media |
| Website | sgma.org |
The Southern Gospel Music Association (SGMA) is a non-profit corporation formed as an association of southern gospel music singers, songwriters, fans, and industry workers. Membership is acquired and maintained through payment of annual dues. The SGMA was formed in 1994, and states that its primary goal is "to preserve, protect and promote Southern Gospel Music, its history and heritage".
The Southern Gospel Music Association operates the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame in Pigeon Forge, a popular Tennessee tourist town, and also hosts the Southern Gospel Music Awards. The Hall of Fame and Museum was opened at the Dollywood theme park in 1999.
Leadership of the SGMA is vested in a 23-member board of directors. The SGMA is responsible for the nomination, selection, and induction into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
History
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) was founded in 1964 to promote Gospel music. It was created as an extension of the National Quartet Convention, a convention devoted to Southern gospel that had been operating since 1956. Its founding board included Don Butler, Cecil and James Blackwood, Vestal Goodman, Charlie Lamb, Don Light, and J.D. Sumner, and its first president was Tennessee Ernie Ford. In its early years, it faced competition from the United States Gospel Music Association, a for-profit entity also focused on gospel music.
In the 1970s and 1980s, tension and conflict emerged between Southern gospel and the newer developments of Jesus music and Contemporary Christian music. Southern Gospel conservatives had been resistant to racial integration, and even as they were slowly becoming more receptive to integration, the new developments in Christian music resulted in Southern Gospel becoming increasingly marginalized by music consumers and losing influence in the GMA. Many Southern conservatives, including members of the GMA, also disapproved of rock music and felt that the newer styles of Gospel music being promoted by the GMA indicated that the organization was essentially moving into an alliance with the "enemy". The Southern Gospel industry became disenchanted with the direction that the GMA was heading and a new organization, the Southern Gospel Music Association, was formed by Charles Waller. However, in 1985, this organization was absorbed by the GMA. A new, independent Southern Gospel Music Association was formed in 1995.
See also
References
- Westover, Jonas. "Gospel Music Association". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002249657. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Cusic, Don, ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock and Worship. ABC-CLIO, 2009, pp. 223-224.
- W.K. McNeil, ed. Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. Routledge, 2013, pp. 149-150.
- "Editorial Notes Differences in Gospel Music Assn. and GMA". Billboard, October 22, 1966. (Google Books)
- ^ Cusic, Don. 2002. p. 377-380
- ^ Goff, James R. 2002. p. 271-274
- ^ Cheatham, Russ (March 8, 2012). "Gospel Music, White". In Hornd, David (ed.). Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8: Genres: North America. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol. 8: Genres: North America. New York and London: A&C Black. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-4411-6078-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Goff, James R. 2002. p. 272
- ^ Cusic, Don. 2002. p. 379
- Cusic, Don. 2002. p. 380
- Goff, James R. (2002). Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-5346-7.
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