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Boogaloos (Music)


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    • Boo-ga-loos (Music)
    • Boogalus (Music)
    • Bugaloos (Music)
    • Popcorn music
    • Shing-a-lings (Music)
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    • found: Work cat.: The rough guide to boogaloo [SR] p2005:insert (Boogaloo was one of Latin music's shortest-lived trends: it flared into life in the early 1960s and, within a decade ... [was] overtaken by what became known as salsa ... With hindsight, boogaloo was inevitable. Around 1960, the mambo obsession was cooling, and the ... cha-cha-cha was taking its place. New York bandleader Johnny Pacheco ... created a wilder, modern, very New York version called pachanga ... Pachanga was just a kick away from the crossbreed boogaloo -- or Latin soul as it was also known)
    • found: All Music Guide web page, Mar. 20, 2006(Genre: Boogaloo: The sound of Latin teenagers in and around New York during the mid- to late-'60s, Boogaloo was an Anglicized form of Latin music incorporating R&B, mambo, and rock & roll, among other forms. Often known as popcorn music or shing-a-ling, the style is also quite similar to Latin soul)
    • found: Wikipedia, Mar. 20, 2006(Boogaloo (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)
    • found: BuscaSalsa.com, Mar. 20, 2006(Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire July 31, 1999 v.2, no.2 p.22, "Cha Cha with A Backbeat" : Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo: "Between the mambo and salsa, in the brief period spanning the years 1966-1968, the boogaloo was all the rage in the New York Latin community and beyond. It was both a bridge and a break, for with all the continuities and influences in terms of musical style, the boogaloo diverged from the prevailing models of Latin music in significant ways)
    • found: LC database, May 8, 2006(Boogaloo, boo-ga-loo)
    • found: SalsaRoots.com Web site, June 7, 2006 (Boogalu (a.k.a. Boogaloo))
    • found: Random House dict. (bugaloo, a fast dance of Afro-American origin...)
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    • 2006-03-20: new
    • 2006-06-22: revised
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