Society of Professional Recording and Audio Services
http://www.spars.com
SPARS is a non-profit professional trade organization that unites the manufacturers of audio recording equipment and providers of services, with the users. SPARS membership includes prominent recording studios, individual engineers and producers, production houses, post-production facilities, manufacturers of professional audio recording equipment, schools, colleges, studio designers, leasing companies, and persons who serve the audio recording industry.

The Music Producers Guild
http://www.mpg.org.uk/
Represents and protects the interests of the recording producers' profession through education, dissemination of information, and affiliation with other domestic and international music industry associations and guilds, as well as applicable governmental agencies.

National Association of Recording Merchandisers
http://www.narm.com/
The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is the not-for-profit trade association founded in 1958 whose nearly 400 member companies represent the retailers, wholesalers, and distributors of prerecorded music in the United States.

Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA)
http://www.meiea.org/
The goal of the Association is to provide a marketplace for ideas, strategies, and original concepts in education to meet the professional challenges for the music industry of the 21st century.

Acoustic Performers Guild
http://www.geocities.com/singing_string/
Among other things, the Acoustic Performers Guild claim to be dedicated to "Proving that Life exists outside of the major labels and the music "business," and the development of opportunity for all musicians of talent."

The Black Rock Coalition
http://www.blackrockcoalition.org/
This organization aims to emphasize the importance of Black music in an educational manner by organizing artist showcases, seminars, commentaries and reviews. "The purpose of the BRC, which represents progressive Black artists and their supporters, is to insure that Black musicians are not forced into the creative straitjackets presently imposed by the music industry."