WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
race′ mu′sic, [Older Use.]
- Music, Slang Termsblues-based music or jazz by and for American blacks in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry;
early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- 1925–30, American.