gospel music

English

Noun

gospel music (usually uncountable, plural gospel musics)

1. (music) A type of Christian music genre that is a cornerstone of the Christian media that originated amongst African-Americans based on the folk music melodies with the addition of elements of spirituals and jazz.

Derived terms

• Southern gospel
• gospel-blues

Translations

type of music

• Catalan: gòspel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 福音音樂／福音音乐 (fuk¹ jam¹ jam¹ ngok⁶)

  Hokkien: 福音音樂／福音音乐 (hok-im im-ga̍k)

  Mandarin: 福音音樂／福音音乐 (fúyīn yīnyuè)

• Dutch: gospel (nl) m, gospelmuziek (nl) f
• Esperanto: gospelmuziko, gospelo
• Finnish: gospel (fi), gospel-musiikki, gospelmusiikki
• Georgian: გოსპელი (gosṗeli)
• Japanese: ゴスペル (gosuperu)
• Maori: puoro rongopai
• Marathi: गॉस्पेल संगीत n (gŏspel saṅgīt)
• Polish: gospel (pl) m
• Portuguese: gospel (pt) m
• Russian: го́спел (ru) m (góspɛl)
• Spanish: góspel m
• Swedish: gospel (sv) c