GOSPEL SINGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gospel singing mean? 

• GOSPEL SINGING (noun)
  The noun GOSPEL SINGING has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: GOSPEL SINGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOSPEL SINGING (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gospel; gospel singing

Hypernyms ("gospel singing" is a kind of...):

ethnic music; folk; folk music (the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community)

Domain category:

a capella singing; a cappella singing (singing without instrumental accompaniment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gospel singing"):

doo-wop (a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing; characterized by close four-part harmonies; the name derived from some of the nonsense syllables sung by the backup)

soul (a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s)