Negro spiritual

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Negro spiritual
    n 1: a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the
         southern United States [syn: {spiritual}, {Negro
         spiritual}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "Negro spiritual":
      anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, church music, doxology, gospel,
      gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, mass,
      motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion,
      prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass,
      sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual