01-08-2006, 01:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Music City
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Originally Posted by BIBI
The church played a major role in the development of gospel music....
It was the place where a base was set to promote it, where it gained a wider audience and many notable gospel singers propelled from. I believe the term was adopted as an affectionate one more than factual in order to give gospel music a home. Such is the same for country music and The Grand Old Opry .
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I don't intend to hijack the thread, just adding what I think may be an interesting sidebar, since BIBI brought it up...the Ryman Auditorium, often identified as the Mother Church of Country Music, as it was the longtime home of the Grand Ole Opry, also started out a church facility...Capt. Ryman financed the building of a tabernacle as way of paying up a debt he felt he owed to God...
Actually, I've seen it as fairly common for one religious group to move out of a building to be replaced by another...
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