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race music

noun

, Older Use.
  1. blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of race music1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

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