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AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
Synonyms:
African-American music; black music
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("African-American music" is a kind of...):
genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "African-American music"):
blues (a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes)
soul (a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s)
hip-hop; rap; rap music (genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged)
R and B; rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll)
