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    AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated chorusesplay

    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)

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