Art that accords, and other music links

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• Welcome To The Home of Gospel Singing Conventions -- “GospelConventions.com offers the most comprehensive listing of singing conventions, singing schools, and gospel music publishers available anywhere on the internet today.”
• The Timelessness of Black Gospel Christmas Music -- “The spirituals reflect a people who believe they're in the middle of the Bible story. I think that gives them a power that's hard for others to match”
• Thanksgiving hymns are a few centuries old, tops – but biblical psalms of gratitude and praise go back thousands of years -- “Interestingly, for songs associated with a distinctly American holiday, none [of these] have American origins.”
• Tennessee State Officials Recognize 70th Anniversary of Sunday Tradition -- “Sunday Tradition is a television program that was started in 1954 by J. Bazzel Mull, who was a prominent preacher, radio personality and promoter in the Knoxville area for decades.”
• NYC priest who allowed Sabrina Carpenter to shoot a music video in church stripped of duties -- “Church officials said they were appalled Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello permitted Carpenter to film the provocative video last year for her hit song ‘Feather.’”
• In Loving Memory Of Dottie Leonard Miller – Founder & CEO Of Daywind Records -- “Dottie later added Daywind Music Publishing, now the predominant music publisher in Southern Gospel and Bluegrass music genres...”
• Girls’ choir fills in ‘missing piece of the puzzle’ -- “At the end of June a new choir was formed - the first choir made up entirely of girls.”
• FOR OR AGAINST: Style-Based Worship Services -- “People are not starved for the greatness of our music, they are starved for the greatness of our God.”
• Does Music Have Meaning? -- “Music mimics what emotions feel like and how they express themselves, and in this way music is able to express what words alone cannot.”
• Dire hissings -- “I am writing this on the eve of the day Americans celebrate a day of Thanksgiving, and it puts me in mind of William Billings’s delightful An Anthem, for Thanksgiving.”
• Art that Accords with Sound Doctrine -- “For Christians, making or evaluating culture must always be measured against God’s special revelation.”
• African American Gospel -- “The precursor to black Gospel music is the African American spiritual, which had already been around for well over a century before Gospel music began its rise to popularity starting in the 1930s.”
• A Common Meter Christmas -- “Today I want to briefly highlight four Christmas carols to show one aspect of how Christmas traditions have changed over the centuries.”
• A Brief Overview of Sacred Harp Music -- “Sacred harp survives both in church services in the South, as well as conventions where singers travel long distances...”