call and response

See also: call-and-response

English

Alternative forms

• call-response, call-and-response

Noun

call and response (uncountable)

2. An interaction between speaker and listener, in which statements of the speaker are rapidly followed by responses from the listener.
   • 2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic‎^[1]:

     Donald Trump didn’t shy away from several Qanon chants that erupted throughout the last leg of his New Hampshire campaign on Monday. ¶ During a quiet moment of the rally, attendees engaged in a bit of call-and-response with the GOP front-runner, shouting things at Trump for his reactions.

4. (singing) A musical technique in which one or more performers calls and others, often the audience, respond with alternating musical phrases.
6. (religion) A prayer or preaching verbal technique similar to this.

   Synonym: litany

Translations

Translations

• Japanese: コールアンドレスポンス (kōru and resuponsu), コール&レスポンス (kōru and resuponsu)

See also

• Prayers of the People

References

• 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.) Pg. 593.