African-American music vs blues

African-American music and blues both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African-American music	Yes	No	No	No
blues	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, blues is a hyponym of African-American music; that is, blues is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than African-American music:

African-American music: music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
blues: a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

Other hyponyms of African-American music include soul, hip-hop, rap, rap music, R and B, rhythm and blues.

African-American music (noun)	blues (noun)
music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses	a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
	a state of depression

African-American music vs blues

African-American music and blues both are nouns.

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