Call and Response was I think started in the church. Choirs whould sing one part (the call) and the congregation would reply with another bit (the response) Now its not limited to church music.

One example that comes to mind is Tommy James and The Shondells tune Mony Mony. Specifically the part that goes "I say yeh......Yeh....Yeh .....Yeh


well you get the idea.

check out the WIKI article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_and_response_(music)