#black_music__blackmusic__African-American_music music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
supertype: #music_genre__musicgenre__musical_genre__musicalgenre__genre__musical_style__musicalstyle an expressive style of music
subtype: #blues__blue a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
subtype: #boogie-woogie__boogie an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
subtype: #soul.gospel_singing a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s; "soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"
subtype: #rap_music__rapmusic__rap genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
subtype: #rhythm_and_blues__R_and_B a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll
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