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ring shout

noun

a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.

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Nearby words

ring out, ring ouzel, ring road, ring rot, ring scotoma, ring-shout, ring snake, ring spinning, ring spot, ring stone, ring syringe

Origin of ring shout

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
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British Dictionary definitions for ring-shout

ring-shout

noun

a West African circle dance that has influenced jazz, surviving in the Black churches of the southern US
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