ALL meanings of ring-shout
ring-shout
R r - noun ring-shout 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. 1
- noun ring-shout a West African circle dance that has influenced jazz, surviving in the Black churches of the southern US 0