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The Gospel Music Association (GMA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting and promoting the development of all forms of gospel music. [1] As of 2011, there are about 4,000 members worldwide. [ 2 ]
SAT-7 is a Christian satellite television organization based in Nicosia, Cyprus and broadcasting 24/7 in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish across 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as 50 countries in Europe. Founded in 1995, SAT-7 is the first and largest Christian satellite organization serving the region.
The International Country Gospel Music Association (ICGMA) is the oldest of all Christian country music organizations. ICGMA began in 1957 as the brainchild of W. Lindsey Thompson and Billy Holcomb. Their goal was to unite and work together with artists not just from a state side vision, but internationally.
The contemporary Christian music industry has roots in the late 1960s and early 1970s Jesus movement and its Jesus music artists. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music points out three reasons that the Christian music industry developed as a parallel structure to the general music industry. [3]
King David singing the Psalms. The Church Music Association of America (CMAA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) association of Catholic church musicians and others who have a special interest in music and liturgy, active in advancing Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony, and other forms of sacred music for liturgical use.
A Christian music festival is a festival oriented towards genres of Christian music, such as gospel music, church music, liturgical music, or contemporary Christian music such as Christian pop and Christian rock. Festivals are held worldwide, and in North America many are overseen by organizations such as the Christian Festival Association. [1]