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	Society For The Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America,, Inc.
		S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. - The long array of initials stands for the "Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America." Founded in 1938, the Society does just what its name implies.
		The Society began in 1938 (a time of multi-initialed governmental agencies in the United States), and it is easy to recognize the tongue-in-cheek attitude with which it began.
		The Society boasts more than 800 choruses and 1800 quartets and 37,000 men across the United States and Canada, ranging in size from about 20 to 150 members.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /leklein/spebsqsa.htm (295 words)

	About the men's barbershop harmony society SPEBSQSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The founders of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) named the organization as a parody of the multi-initialed government agencies which existed at the time, i.e.
		The basic unit of the Society is a chapter whose members sing in the chapter chorus and may also sing in quartets.
		Chapters have one or more quartets in their ranks as members are attracted to singing in the format the Society founders first promoted.
	www.nccn.net /~sing/society.html (320 words)

	SPEBSQSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		SPEBSQSA was founded in 1938, when Tulsa tax attorney Owen C. Cash happened to meet a fellow Tulsan, investment banker Rupert I. Hall, while both were in Kansas City, stranded when a storm closed the airport.
		SPEBSQSA is now the world's largest all-male singing organization, with more than 34,000 singers in more than 800 chapters in the United States and Canada.
		The Society is headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in a historic 1930s-era mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan.
	www.vm.org /spebsqsa.htm (756 words)

	MBNA America Collegiate Quartet Contest Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The MBNA America College Quartet Contest is for male quartets, singing in the barbershop style, as defined in Section V. The contest is open to young men 17-25 years of age, inclusive, at the time of the contest in which the men compete.
		Participants may be Society members or not so long as at least two of a quartet's members were never members of the Society prior to January 1 of the year in which the quartet first participates in the MBNA America College Quartet Contest, at either the district or international levels.
		Quartets will be responsible for their own travel, lodging and other expenses incurred while participating in the competition(s).
	webpages.marshall.edu /~bennett7/thestation/cqcrules.html (1223 words)

	SPEBSQSA Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Preserving an art form: the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.
		The Barbershop Harmony Society, formerly known as SPEBSQSA, Inc., was founded in 1938, when Tulsa tax attorney Owen C. Cash happened to meet a fellow Tulsan, investment banker Rupert I. Hall, while both were in Kansas City, stranded when a storm closed the airport.
		The Society is head quartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in an historic, 1930s-era mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan.
	home.earthlink.net /~cfchordsmen/SPEBSQSA/SPEBSQSA.html (514 words)

	PBS Records Announces Album Release of 'CAN'T STOP SINGING' Featuring Winners of International Barber Shop Quartet ...
		The "CAN'T STOP SINGING" CD and accompanying PBS performance special feature a mix of songs taped before a live audience at The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) 1998 international competition in Atlanta.
		SPEBSQSA boasts more than 34,000 members and is the world's largest all-male singing society.
		First popularized in traveling musical shows and in vaudeville, barbershop quartet flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s and was a staple of the earliest years of the recording industry.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/07-15-1999/0000981992 (472 words)

	The Princeton Garden Statesmen - What is SPEBSQSA, Inc.? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Founded in 1938, the Society is a nonprofit, international organization with more than 35,000 members in over 700 Chapters in the United States and Canada.
		The International Office of the Society is located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
		whose mission is "to strengthen singing on a nationwide basis" and "to preserve vocal music in our communities and schools by funding school choral music programs, festivals, community-singing initiatives, community choruses, scholarships, and educational support for music teachers".
	www.menwhosing.org /speb-main.htm (207 words)

	Appalachian State University News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Quartet members are Rob Henry, a mortgage lender for American National Mortgage, Jim Henry, a choral music professor at Lindenwood University, Rich Knight, a high school drafting teacher and Kipp Buckner, owner of a web design/development company.
		Triad Harmony Express was founded in 1949 as The Auctioneers, the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.
		The event was held in conjunction with other events and competitions for quartets and choruses sponsored by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America Inc.
	www.appstate.edu /WWW_DOCS/NEWS/RELEASES/080803BARBERSHOP.HTML (293 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America
		He became director of the local barbershop society in 1989, when he was a mere twenty-something.
		The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America boasts 34,000 members in 809 chapters throughout the United States and Canada.
		The society's historians say that barbershop harmony ensemble was indeed sung at barber shops, but those weren't the only places.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.17.00/slices-0007.html (721 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Jim Debusman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In addition, he is the quartet coaching and vocal techniques coordinator at the Society's Harmony College and sound management facilitator at the Society's Directors College.
		He still sings tenor with the 1982 Evergreen District champion, The Cascade Connection, and was selected to the Evergreen District's Hall of Fame in 1996.
		The chief musical coach, teacher, and director for the 2003 Rendezvous was Jim DeBusman, who is on the permanent staff of the headquarters for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, based in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Debusman_Jim_1650920.htm (763 words)

	About SPEBSQSA
		The Society is headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in an historic, 1930s-era mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan.
		As the minstrel show was supplanted by the equally popular vaudeville, the tradition of close-harmony quartets remained, often as a "four act" combining music with ethnic comedy that would be scandalous by modern standards.
		Radio quartets kept close harmony singing popular with many amateur singers, though - and these singers were ready for the revival of barbershop harmony that took place in April, 1938, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	www.coastliners.org /spebsqsa.htm (1265 words)

	Valparaiso Masters of Harmony: Society: Barbershop Harmony Society
		Approximately 2,000 quartets registered with The Barbershop Harmony Society headquarters; an estimated 1,000 more quartets are active but not officially registered.
		Quartets and choruses contribute more than 100,000 man-hours per year singing for more than half a million people at churches, schools, hospitals, senior centers, etc.
		Contests in quartet and chorus singing at local, regional, and international levels.
	www.vmoh.org /society-bhs.html (310 words)

	The Chordlighter Chorus
		We are a chapter of the SPEBSQSA, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, also known as the Barbershop Harmony Society.
		It may be sung by a quartet or a chorus as is done by the Chordlighters.
		A: The Chordlighter Chorus is the Barbershop chorus of the Columbus-Greenwood Chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing of America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA).
	www.chordlighters.org /about.html (687 words)

	Tri-M Music Honor Society: The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ...
		The Barber Shop Harmony Society, better known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) has challenged its membership to encourage vocal music in our schools and communities.
		The Society's Young Men in Harmony (YMIH) program provides this leadership by inviting the youth of America and Canada to their Summer Harmony Explosion Camps, an ongoing collegiate quartet contest, and a newly-instituted high school quartet contest.
		As well, SPEBSQSA provides the expertise that enables the Barber Shop Harmony Society Districts to conduct music festivals within their boundaries.
	www.menc.org /information/trim/resources_spebsqsa.html (467 words)

	Barbershop Quartet
		The Rahway Valley Jerseyaires Chorus of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. hosted its 36th Annual Novice Quartet Contest on February 22 at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield.
		Thirteen quartets, from 11 choruses and four states, in the Mid-Atlantic District singing society, competed in the contest.
		The Rahway Valley Chapter’s funding was made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.
	www.goleader.com /97stories/97mar23quartet.htm (158 words)

	Welcome to the West Branch Chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Barbershop four part harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody.
		Barbershop quartets and choruses are dedicated to preserving the music that is in the style of "the old songs".
		The Society is to be an ever-growing fraternity of barbershop-style singers, leading the cause of encouraging vocal music in our schools and communities
	www.westbranchchorus.com (153 words)

	The Desert Aires Barbershop Chorus - Pitch Pipe - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Heritage Hall Museum of Barbershop Harmony was founded in 1988 in order to preserve the history of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA).
		The Museum collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America and the art form it espouses (the four-part male close-harmony singing style known as barbershop harmony) to enhance the appreciation and understanding of their past, present, and future.
		The Museum was opened in April of 1988 as part of the Society's 50th Anniversary celebrations.
	www.desertairesbarbershopchorus.org /junpp2.htm (416 words)

	The Chorus of DuPage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Chorus of DuPage is part of the DuPage Valley Chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, also known as the Barbershop Harmony Society.
		The Barbershop Harmony Society, the world's largest all-male singing society, brings together men who love singing music in the barbershop style -- four-part, a cappella (unaccompanied) close-harmony singing.
		— Encourage and promote the education of its members and the public in music appreciation of barbershop quartet and chorus singing.
	www.harmonize.com /duPage/who.htm (168 words)

	Central Methodist University - Swinney Conservatory of Music
		Harmony Foundation was established for educational and charitable purposes, and shares the values and vision of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. ("SPEBSQSA").
		Harmony Foundation's Grants Program is designed to promote and encourage, through financial support, creative growth and development of ideas and projects proposed by SPEBSQSA, its chapters, districts, affiliated and subsidiary organizations, as well as other recognized, but unaffiliated, community organizations or groups whose purposes and projects are consistent with the purposes of HF.
		The CMU A Cappella Choir expresses its deepest gratitude to Harmony Foundation and SPEBSQSA, Inc. for this support of our efforts and congratulates these fine organizations for the excellent work they do on behalf of a more musical and supportive society for America and the world.
	www.centralmethodist.edu /music/choir/2001-2002/accnews.html (348 words)

	Quartet singers croon classic numbers (printable version)
		Watching the next generation of barbershop quartet singers at John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 71-year-old Sam Barger’s spirit and vigor was as fresh as in 1948 -- the year he joined his first quartet.
		The adult quartets competed for a chance at the international contests in Montreal, while high school-aged quartets from California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and Utah vied for the right to take home a trophy.
		He said the key to a good quartet is to have each person sing their part without paying attention to the three others, yet still blend it into one sound.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=37532 (448 words)

	Carolina Chordsmen - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Society's founding was whimsical, but it takes its mission to "Keep The Whole World Singing" very seriously indeed.
		SPEBSQSA was founded in 1938, when Tulsa tax attorney Owen C. Cash ran into a fellow Tulsan, investment banker Rupert I. Hall, in the lobby of the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, stranded when a storm closed the airport.
		Of course, quartet singing is the core of the style, and still considered the most prestigious segment of the hobby.
	www.carolinachordsmen.org /history.html (656 words)

	Class Briefing: Flowing Wells \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The Society of the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America and Sonoran Sound came to Flowing Wells to provide a mini-workshop for eight students the afternoon of Jan. 16.
		The workshop started off with the four members of Sonoran Sound quartet singing a short song to introduce the students to the sound of barbershop After that, a short video clip was shown that displayed the group's tactics for teaching and performing barbershop music at another workshop.
		Then the quartet taught the students a tag, which is the ending to a song.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/7581 (205 words)

	june_2004PF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is an international chapter of SPEBSQSA that is for members who are not part of a local chapter.
		SPEBSQSA, a non-profit, charitable, singing and educational fraternal organization, is for men who love Barbershop Harmony.
		It is in the Blue Ridge Area, Southern Division, Mid-Atlantic District, of the society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA).
	www.vagents.org /Chordhusker/june_2004PF/june_2004pf.html (4089 words)

	Meet our new director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kirk previously was a Music Specialist for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.(SPEBSQSA).
		Prior to assuming his duties at the Society headquarters, Kirk was the director of instrumental music at Cumberland High School in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
		This work garnered the quartet the prestigious 1995 MENC/SPEBSQSA Award, SPEBSQSA'S Northeastern District 1995 "Barbershoppers of the Year" award, and the Maine ACDA "Choral Music Educators of the Year" award in 1996.
	www.tampabayheraldsofharmony.org /HOH_new.htm (305 words)

	Rocky Mountain District
		The art of barbershop singing is bigger than you'd think: the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America includes approximately 2000 quartets, 825 choruses and more than 32,000 members in the US and Canada.
		The Rocky Mountain District is one of 16 districts across North America that is part of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA).
		The bottom line is that singing barbershop music is a fantastic way to be part of a rich musical heritage that is wonderfully fun and invigorating, not to mention delightfully entertaining!
	rmdsing.org (102 words)

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