african-american music
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1. music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses (noun.communication)
| hyponym | : | blues, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | soul, |
| definition | : | a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | hip-hop, rap, rap music, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | r and b, rhythm and blues, |
| definition | : | a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll (noun.communication) |
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