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BLACK MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black music mean? 

BLACK MUSIC (noun)
  The noun BLACK MUSIC has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BLACK MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK MUSIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

African-American music; black music

Hypernyms ("black 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 "black 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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