WordNet
gospel singing
n. a genre of a capella 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) [syn: gospel]
Usage examples of "gospel singing".
She has a weakness for gospel singing on the radio, Mahalia Jackson and the Caravans her favorites, but all the re st of it, Jesus Christ and that crew, it's white folks' foolishness or outright trickery.
Raucous laughter in one area was countered by gospel singing in another.
Both of them stopped on the footpath, the brackish air stirring their hair as they listened hard to the faint sound of gospel singing that was carried almost imperceptibly by the wind.