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Princeton's WordNet

  1. black music, African-American musicnoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. Black music

    Black music is a sound created, produced, or inspired by black people, people of African descent, including African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including Caribbean music, Latin music, Brazilian music and African-American music. These genres include spiritual, gospel, rumba, blues, bomba, rock and roll, rock, jazz, salsa, R&B, samba, calypso, soca, soul, disco, kwaito, cumbia, funk, ska, reggae, dub reggae, house, Detroit techno, amapiano, hip hop, pop, gqom, afrobeat, and others.

ChatGPT

  1. black music

    Black music, also known as African-American music, is a broad term encompassing a range of music genres that have originated or been predominantly developed by African-Americans. The genres include spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, soul, rap, hip hop, and many others. The elements typical to black music may include syncopation, call and response pattern, improvisation, and specific scale patterns, often characterized by the so-called "blue notes". Black music has significantly influenced the global music culture and has led to innovations in multiple forms of popular music.

Wikidata

  1. Black Music

    Black Music is the first album by Chocolate Genius. It was released on V2 Records on July 14, 1998. Track 05 'My Mom' Is about a return visit to his childhood home, and the mother he was losing to senility. "My mom, my sweet mom/She don't remember my name." The song "Life" was used in the season 2 finale of Breaking Bad.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of black music in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of black music in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of black music in a Sentence

  1. Harvey Mason Jr.:

    Most people don't care who sings what, there is no 'black music' or 'white music.' Make good art and people will listen to it.

  2. Joe Biden:

    Perhaps no music has had as profound and powerful an impact in shaping America's musical score as Black music, for generations, Black music has conveyed the hopes and struggles of a resilient people -- spirituals mourning the original sin of slavery and later heralding freedom from bondage, hard truths told through jazz and the sounds of Motown during the civil rights movement, and hip-hop and rhythm and blues that remind us of the work that still lies ahead.

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