| NOUN | communication | African-American music, black music | music created by African-American musicians |
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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 choruses. | |
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| Synonym | black music | |
| Narrower | blues | A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century |
| rap, rap music, hip-hop | genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment | |
| rhythm and blues, R and B | A combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians | |
| soul | A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | |
| Broader | music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style | An expressive style of music |
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