NOUN
- music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
How To Use black music In A Sentence
- One of the first, Songs of Zion was published by the United Methodist Church and contains a history of black music in addition to hymns, spirituals and gospel songs.
- The insulting minstrel shows stole black music because there wasn't anything as interesting to poach from the white musical tradition. "Showtime," Larry Stempel's history of Broadway musicals, reviewed by Lloyd Rose
- He listens to black music while she listens to different kinds of music, but no techno.
- It is sometimes a question of style - think of the ‘technical’ innovations of black music, or the empathic and connective revolt of the ‘movement of movements’ against capitalism.
- Critics claim he exploited black musicians for personal gain.
- Originally of the hard bop school, Ayers embraced the strains of black music coming from the radio, incorporating more R&B smoothness and disco push into his jazz-based playing.
- Critics claim he exploited black musicians for personal gain.
- Mexican music - norteño, ranchero - is poised to cross over, as black music did in the 1950s.
- Swirling beneath the seemingly simple storylines of the black musicals Krasner discusses are complex countercurrents of resistance.
- Critics claim he exploited black musicians for personal gain.
