ethnic music
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The classic body of recordings of Central and Eastern European immigrants to the United States from the early to mid-20th century, and music in that style.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "(Music in a style characteristic of foreign-born people.): As an American, I enjoy listening to American music like jazz and country, but I don't like ethnic music."
- "(Any kind of traditional or folk music.): Popular and classical music are so stuffy, I prefer listening to the rootsy sounds of ethnic music."
- "(Music in a distinct style associated with an ethnicity.): Hungarians produce a lot of good rock and hip hop music, but it's their ethnic music that I find especially interesting."
- "2012. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8. "Ethnic Music". Martin Stokes. Pg 204. By 1920 Columbia and Victor had issued around 21,000 copies of ethnic music each."
- "2003. Horn Man: The Polish-American Musician in Twentieth-century Detroit. Laurie Palazzolo. Pg. 83. This period marked the beginning of a wonderful, if short-lived, era for ethnic music."
- "1992. [A Passion for Polka: Old-time Ethnic Music in America]. Victor Greene. Pg. 245. Welk is much better known for his immensely successful programs over television, which began in the early 50s after the era of "ethnic music" acceptance"
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage