Meaning | 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). |
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Synonym | gospel |
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Category | a cappella singing, a capella singing | singing without instrumental accompaniment |
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Narrower | doo-wop | A genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing |
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soul | A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s |
Broader | folk music, ethnic music, folk | The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community |
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Spanish | gospel |
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Catalan | gospel |
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