WordNet
n. music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses [syn: African-American music]
Wikipedia
Black music is a term encompassing music produced or inspired by black people, including Sub-Saharan African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including Caribbean music and African American music. These genres include jazz, blues, soul, funk, rock and roll and, more recently, rap and hip hop.
Black Music is the first album by Chocolate Genius. It was released on V2 Records on July 14, 1998.
Track 5, "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 final episode of season 2 of Breaking Bad.
Black Music'' (Black Music & Jazz Review'' from April 1978) was the first British music magazine to take reggae music seriously. The magazine was aimed mostly at fans of soul music but included regular featured articles on reggae and reggae charts. The first issue was published in December 1973 and the magazine was published monthly until July 1984, when it was absorbed by Blues & Soul.
It was Carl Gayle, born in Jamaica, who inspired the magazine after his article "Let it Rock" came to the attention of magazine publishers IPC ( International Publishing Corporation). Gayle later recorded several reggae albums under the name "Carl I". His first was titled Keep My Fire Burnin.
Usage examples of "black music".
In the immense black grotto there was a silk-and-soap organ playing a predaceous black music.
You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got to Get You off My Mind,' but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and .