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GOSPEL SINGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)
Synonyms:
gospel; gospel singing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gospel singing" is a kind of...):
ethnic music; folk; folk music (the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community)
Domain category:
a capella singing; a cappella singing (singing without instrumental accompaniment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gospel singing"):
doo-wop (a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing; characterized by close four-part harmonies; the name derived from some of the nonsense syllables sung by the backup)
soul (a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s)
