blues-based music or jazz by and for African-Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues
Word origin
[1925–30, Amer.]
Examples of 'race music' in a sentence
race music
He rescued little-known 'race music' from bins and bargain buckets, calling these records his 'dusty discs'.