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    ETHNIC MUSIC

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a communityplay

    Synonyms:

    ethnic music; folk; folk music

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("ethnic music" is a kind of...):

    popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ethnic music"):

    folk ballad; folk song; folksong (a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture)

    schottische (music performed for dancing the schottische)

    C and W; country and western; country music (a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments)

    gospel; gospel singing (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))

    square-dance music (music performed for square dancing)

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