More Like A Whisper Tampa Obituaries | Local Obits for Tampa, FL - Legacy.com Any Arkansas setting becomes synonymous with the Ozark hillbilly. 33 Southern gospel product sales See Harrison. The conflation of "southern" and "white" to describe this music circulates widely among scholars and non-specialists, but has only been tentatively stated in scholarship. Standing By On My Soul And I've never been more sure of the path I've chosen." to Cart, May We Never Forget (CD) - $5.00 - Add See David Fillingim, "A Flight From Liminality: 'Home' in Country and Gospel Music," Studies in Popular Culture 20, no. "I've many thoughts about the show tonight," she tweeted, "most of which are probably better left inside my head. Nominated in the "Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music" category, CCM soloist Natalie Grant attended the ceremony, only to leave before the show ended. For The Love See David Fillingim, "A Flight From Liminality: 'Home' in Country and Gospel Music,". And both black and white gospel have "borrowed those aspects, reinterpreting them for their own cultures" and purposes. The basic details provided here derive largely from The Martins's disclosures on stage, press coverage, conservations I have had with industry professionals, and my experience. Count Your Blessings 1 (2008): 2758. Yet it is a mistake to treat southern gospel as wholly synonymous with white gospel. The Martins view from the stage was overwhelming. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_28', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_28').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Professional southern gospel emerged from a Reconstruction-era subculture of poor and working-class white southerners. The Martins appear to possess an unadorned, God-given popularity that abides in their embodiment of white tradition and progress. Unlike "northern urban" gospel (a phrase with no currency outside academe), it is the preferred way to self-identify within the culture and the most widely recognized way to describe the music to outsiders.