It's a call-and-response song that I learned as a child. From Wordnik.com. [name that (dress) tune - A Dress A Day] Reference
African music is organised in a call-and-response format. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The demonstrators continued their call-and-response chant. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Bell: Citizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti] Reference
McPalin IS responsible if that call-and-response was SET UP. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" McCain Supporter: "Terrorist!"] Reference
The excitable audience had found its call-and-response rhythm. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Not Trump City. It's New York City.'] Reference
Obama's stump speech has the rhythm of a call-and-response sermon. From Wordnik.com. [Kelly Nuxoll: What The Debate Over Obama's Race And Clinton's Gender Says About Us] Reference
He was saying this, and it was a call-and-response kind of sermon. From Wordnik.com. [We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda] Reference
Monique looked up and started the second bar; again, the call-and-response. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Rodi: Booty (Re)Call With Typhanie Monique] Reference
We quickly picked up all the uniquely SC call-and-response cues of every song. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah Keri: A Former Season-Ticket Holder's Take On Pete Carroll and USC] Reference
USA Today has their take on it, complete with the priceless call-and-response. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March | Jewschool] Reference
They decided to create a call-and-response that the whole team could rally around. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Quarfordt: When Kids Own Education] Reference
Several young protesters danced atop a van and led a call-and-response: Retirement!. From Wordnik.com. [French Pension Protests Draw Nearly A Million Marchers For Third Time In A Month] Reference
There's vocal interaction, from Punjabi singing to English rapping to call-and-response. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Band for the World] Reference
It's the call-and-response across the decades that seems to have caught the author's ear. From Wordnik.com. [A Bookshelf of Change] Reference
“Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions, say!” the rapper shouted in a call-and-response. From Wordnik.com. [The protest against Israeli dance....] Reference
Camille, Trillian, and I joined in the familiar chant, echoing her in a call-and-response. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
Some users time their comments with the dialog or music, creating a call-and-response feel. From Wordnik.com. [Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet] Reference
Steve, the front-man, was always after me to sing backup on this, crooning a call-and-response. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: December 7, 2003 - December 13, 2003 Archives] Reference
A little more on beginners, to go with the long call-and-response after the Time to Teach post. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
But forty years on, the party-crowd call-and-response can still make you feel so good right now. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words] Reference
Kirtan is a call-and-response type of singing that is performed in certain devotional traditions. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy Henson Corso: My First Kirtan] Reference
Encouraged, the two men begin to improvise, instigating a playful call-and-response with the audience. From Wordnik.com. [Frankie Thomas: A Eulogy for "Flight of the Conchords" -- The Best Porn on TV] Reference
POTUS gestured wildly as he read and included the kids in a call-and-response type reading of the book. From Wordnik.com. [White House Easter Egg Roll (VIDEO, PHOTOS, UPDATES)] Reference
No matter where Barack Obama speaks he always finishes with a call-and-response flurry of: Yes, we can!. From Wordnik.com. [Why Barack Obama Will Win] Reference
And they need to be able to be in a call-and-response mode, a much more problem-solving sort of conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Federal Coach: Martha Johnson, GSA administrator, on sustainability, leadership] Reference
The version they did was considerably extended and chock full of call-and-response stuff between the audience. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Moments That Change Your Life—The Remix] Reference
Colina is best in the call-and-response dialogs, where bass and piano swing each other around like dance partners. From Wordnik.com. [Bebo Valdes Brings Havana To Village Vanguard] Reference
For weeks afterward, I thought about the haunting call-and-response of the coyotes and their domesticated cousins. From Wordnik.com. [Outward Bound] Reference
The demonstrators continued their call-and-response chant: Heat under the tarps is brutal, we can't take it any more. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Bell: Citizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti] Reference
Distorted electric guitars joined handclaps, call-and-response chants, and larger-than-life sounding African percussion. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: The Romance of Tinariwen] Reference
I emphasised the yearning for spiritual release (“The Gospel Train”) and the call-and-response structure of the songs. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching Popular Music « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
People who had no memory of their I continent of origin, and no direct experience of the call-and-response music that is Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Bono On Bono]
Yet for all its complexity, "Répons" pays homage to one of the oldest, simplest musical forms — the call-and-response pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Both Challenging and Cool] Reference
Many inaugural attendees braved the bottlenecks in high spirits, engaging in call-and-response chants, singing or swapping stories. From Wordnik.com. [Inauguration Crowds Overwhelm D.C. Transit] Reference
"The cool thing about the harmonica is that it can be melodic, and you can use it for call-and-response and rhythm," Mr. Wiggins said. From Wordnik.com. [Finger-Picking Good] Reference
When he started in, the people at Civic Center turned it into an old-fashioned Baptist call-and-response thing, only not in a good way. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bronstein: Obama's Inauguration Plays to Raves and Jeers in San Francisco] Reference
The audience, energized, clapped and shouted; when he encouraged a call-and-response sing-along, the crowd joined in and sounded great. From Wordnik.com. [The Globalfest Melting Pot] Reference
Ashley Bryan gave us a preview of his call-and-response Caldecott speech, getting us to roar along with Eloise Greenfield's "Things.". From Wordnik.com. [ALA aftermath] Reference
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