Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of soul music popular in the mid 1960s, sometimes including Caribbean musical elements.
- noun A style of dancing performed to this music.
- noun A form of urban dance originating in the late 1960s, involving undulating, fluid body movements and briefly held poses, performed to funk music.
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- noun music A
genre ofLatin American music anddance from the 1960s.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Len called it "boogaloo," but Carrie Ann insisted it was "old school hip-hop" but whatever it was, two of the judges -- Carrie Anna and Bruno -- felt it merited a perfect 10 points while Len gave him a 9 for a dance total of 29 and a night's total of 56 points.
'Dancing with the Stars' penultimate night: We watch so you don't have to Lisa de Moraes 2010
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But because "boogaloo" is a term transmitted more often orally than in writing, it has enjoyed an immunity to the flux of fashion.
One Nation Under a Groove Sante, Luc 2003
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Born out of the mixing tastes of Cuban, Puerto Rican and black teenagers and the clubs they would all frequent in 1960s East Harlem and the South Bronx, boogaloo became a platform for not only the changing of status quo musical styles, but for the identities and social climate of New York City's Latino youth.
Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo Isabelle Davis 2011
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Several years in the making, New York Times writer and Latin soul aficionado Matthew Ramirez Warren's labor of love aims to shed light on the rise and then the abrupt fall of Latin boogaloo.
Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo Isabelle Davis 2011
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Several years in the making, New York Times writer and Latin soul aficionado Matthew Ramirez Warren's labor of love aims to shed light on the rise and then the abrupt fall of Latin boogaloo.
Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo Isabelle Davis 2011
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Several years in the making, New York Times writer and Latin soul aficionado Matthew Ramirez Warren's labor of love aims to shed light on the rise and then the abrupt fall of Latin boogaloo.
Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo Isabelle Davis 2011
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Born out of the mixing tastes of Cuban, Puerto Rican and black teenagers and the clubs they would all frequent in 1960s East Harlem and the South Bronx, boogaloo became a platform for not only the changing of status quo musical styles, but for the identities and social climate of New York City's Latino youth.
Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo Isabelle Davis 2011
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Carmichael, Time magazine claimed, left ahead of the trouble and was “dancing the boogaloo at a downtown nightclub when the rock-throwing in Dixie Hills started.”
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Carmichael, Time magazine claimed, left ahead of the trouble and was “dancing the boogaloo at a downtown nightclub when the rock-throwing in Dixie Hills started.”
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Carmichael, Time magazine claimed, left ahead of the trouble and was “dancing the boogaloo at a downtown nightclub when the rock-throwing in Dixie Hills started.”
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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And Facebook cracked down on a wide swath of dangerous content, including groups devoted to the “boogaloo” movement, which hopes to spark a race war in the United States.
Why did it take so long for Reddit and Facebook to block racist groups? | Siva Vaidhyanathan Siva Vaidhyanathan 2020
treeseed commented on the word boogaloo
Boogaloo or Bugalu (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The style was a fusion of popular African American R&B, rock and roll and soul with mambo and son montuno. Boogaloo entered the mainstream through the American Bandstand television program. The boogaloo (bugalu spanish) dance was loose and interpretive in style. Early Boogaloo used a twelve-step sequence that was later sped up into a thirty-step sequence. The most common musical feature was a mid-tempo, looping melody that doubled as the anchoring rhythm, often played on piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy, anthematic chorus, was another distinguishing feature.
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February 24, 2008
scarequotes commented on the word boogaloo
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/05/31/864402190/who-owns-boogaloo
June 1, 2020
bilby commented on the word boogaloo
Modern meaning?
July 5, 2020
alexz commented on the word boogaloo
@bilby , Scarequotes link had the modern usage. The ADL has more background.
https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war
you'll also see shortening of the term like boog bois
July 5, 2020
bilby commented on the word boogaloo
Terima kasih alexz.
July 7, 2020