John Styll

Today is Monday December 23, 2024 in Canada. This is the day that the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24) David Spencer's Media Spin Canada provides information on: associations in media, a glossary, music, Media new media, photography, publishing, radio, television, video and Resources web resources. David M.R.D. Spencer's founding and work with ChristianMedia.ca between 1999 to 2008. Read the interview with David . To connect with Canadian Christians working and volunteering in arts, media and music, publishing and writing go here . < Home | Associations | Categories | Glossary | Media Workers | New | Popular | Search A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z John Styll is the founder of CCM Magazine, Christian music’s premiere publication which, in fact, helped spark and grow the entire genre of CCM. Styll is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Gospel Music Association. John Styll, president of the Gospel Music Association, defines gospel music, not as genre, but as a huge umbrella that today covers every conceivable musical style. He said, “Christian refers to a message to the lyrical content not so much the musical form.” According to Styll, there are only two genres of gospel music; the black gospel of Mahalia Jackson and the southern gospel of the Blackwood Brothers. He said those genres are still thriving today and while those sounds may be a little different, they’re both relatively unchanged. “Southern Gospel music is mostly songs about heaven and the hereafter and a lot of black Gospel is about getting through and getting by and praising the Lord and it still is,” he said. Other sounds have been brought into gospel music and brought under the “umbrella” by musicians from rock, rap, hip-hop and heavy-metal. Source: http://wkrn.com/node/91558 This article is a stub. If you have information to help make this page more accurate, please contact us. If you would like content on this page removed from our database, please contact us. To link to this page from your web site, blog, social networking site, Twitter feed or e-mail message, use the byline "From David Spencer's Media Spin <http://media.davidspencer.ca>."