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spirituals
Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade. Spirituals incorporate the "sing songs", work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. In the nineteenth century, the word "spirituals" referred to all these
bluegrass music
form of American roots music
Americana
genre of music and radio format

zydeco
thumb|New Orleans Cajun-Zydeco Fest, 2019
old-time music
genre of North American folk music
New Weird America
subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
American folk music revival
Period of time in the mid-twentieth century in which the folk music of America revived
American folk music
group of folk music genres from the United States
field holler
historical type of vocal music

Lee Hoffman
American novelist (1932–2007)