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community singing

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noun

  1. singing, esp of hymns, by a large gathering of people

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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You have the most wonderful music in the world . . . and you have robbed your people of the privilege of community singing.

From Time Magazine Archive

When they walked in Powderhorn Park they heard community singing for which an all-banjo orchestra plunked vigorous accompaniments.

From Time Magazine Archive

A onetime country schoolteacher, fond of speechifying and community singing, he started reporting for the Nashville Tennessean in 1926, eventually became its managing editor.

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For four days there were parades, fireworks, community singing and a great tooting of Alphorns.

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In leading community singing, the conductor will of162 course sing with the crowd, for here he is striving for quite a different sort of effect.

From Essentials in Conducting by Karl Wilson Gehrkens

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