African-American music

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

black music

Hypernyms

genre music genre musical style musical genre

Hyponyms

hip-hop blues soul rap rhythm and blues rap music

Examples

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music. Ahmet Ertegun

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. Jordan Peele

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. Johnny Otis

Close letter words and terms

african-american jargon african-american lead african-american lingo african-american origin african-american person african-american speech