ring shout
noun
a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
Origin of ring shout
An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
Words nearby ring shout
ring out,
ring ouzel,
ring road,
ring rot,
ring scotoma,
ring shout,
ring snake,
ring spinning,
ring spot,
ring stone,
ring syringe
British Dictionary definitions for ring-shout
ring-shout
noun
a West African circle dance that has influenced jazz, surviving in the Black churches of the southern US