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call and response

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call and response (uncountable)

  1. 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.
  2. (singing) A musical technique in which one or more performers calls and others, often the audience, respond with alternating musical phrases.
  3. (religion) A prayer or preaching verbal technique similar to this.
    Synonym: litany

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