gospel singing
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1. 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) (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | ethnic music, folk, folk music, |
| definition | : | the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | doo-wop, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | soul, |
| definition | : | a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s (noun.communication) |
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