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The Christian music industry is a small part of the larger music industry, that focuses on traditional gospel music, southern gospel music, and Contemporary Christian music. The music industry is the industry that creates, performs, promotes, and preserves music. ...
Gospel music may refer either to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the 1930s or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by white southern Christian artists. ...
With Footnotes 2nd Chapter of Acts (1974) Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM) is a somewhat outdated term originally used in the 1970s to describe a new form of pop/rock music that was lyrically based in the Christian faith. ...
The majority of artists working and performing within the Christian music industry are isolated from the mainstream public, to Christian radio, magazines and record stores. Commercial Christian radio is a radio format that plays popular music styles with a focus on the Christian message and associated politically-motivated topics. ...
Some artists however are able to "cross over" to achieve success both within the Christian music industry and the larger, "mainstream" music industry. Crossing over has become a little easier in recent years as, through ownership changes, the largest Christian record labels have become subsidiaries of the "mainstream" labels (who are themselves owned by huge media conglomerates like Viacom and Time Warner), promoting a product to a growing market. Christian music sales now exceed those for classical, jazz, and New Age music combined.[1] A media conglomerate describes companies that own large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet. ...
Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) [pronunciation: pre-Redstone/pre-1987: vee-a-com; post-Redstone acquisition: vi-a-com] NYSE: VIA, NYSE: VIAB is an international media conglomerate. ...
Time Warner Inc. ...
The Christian music industry's roots are found in the late 1960s and early 1970s Jesus Movement and its Jesus Music artists. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...
The Jesus Movement was the Christian component of the Hippie Movement, composed of the Jesus People or Jesus Freaks. ...
Jesus Music (aka gospel beat music in the UK) was the name given to American Christian Rock artists in the 1960s and early 1970s, before the Christian Music industry had even begun to take form. ...
The Christian music industry is structured similarly to the music industry as a whole. It is made up of:
The Christian music industry also has its own blanket performance rights organisation specifically designed for royalty payments related to the reproduction of Christian songs in church worship services: Christian Copyright Licensing International or CCLI [2]. A songwriter is someone who writes, in part or in full, the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
A performance rights organisation exists to collect and distribute royalties on behalf of audio and video artists, for performances of their copyrighted works under copyright law. ...
Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) is a collecting society that protects composers intellectual property in the communications business, especially radio. ...
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an organization known as a collecting society that protects intellectual property, ensuring that music which is broadcast, commercially recorded, or otherwise used for profit, pays a fee to compensate the creators of that music. ...
CCLI logo // Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) CCLI was founded in the US in 1998, to offer copyright licensing of songs and other materials for use in Christian worship. ...
With Footnotes 2nd Chapter of Acts (1974) Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM) is a somewhat outdated term originally used in the 1970s to describe a new form of pop/rock music that was lyrically based in the Christian faith. ...
A praise song is a song of praise to God in the traditions of certain Christian churches. ...
A hymn is a song specifically written as a song of praise, adoration or prayer, typically addressed to a god. ...
LeAnn Rimes singing in concert For other senses of this word, see singer (disambiguation). ...
A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...
There are several organizations calling themselves the Musicians Union: For the United Kingdom, see: Musicians Union (UK) For the United States of America, see listing by state: For Alabama, see Musicians Union (Alabama) Categories: Music stubs ...
In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ...
A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ...
Booker is the term applied in the music industry to someone who books a concert at a venue or several venues, hence the name. ...
The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel on tour with musicians who handle every part of the production except actually playing the music. ...
CCLI logo // Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) CCLI was founded in the US in 1998, to offer copyright licensing of songs and other materials for use in Christian worship. ...
Christian music industry organizations:
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) was founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting and promoting the development of all forms of Gospel music. ...
External links - Christian Music Trade Association
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