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  Boogaloo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 was the result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son montuno and guajira, Puerto Rican/Cuban guaracha, mambo and most uniquely, American RandB/soul.
Boogaloo remains extremely popular to this day in Cali, Colombia, where the genre is played extensively, along with salsa and pachanga, in various FM and AM radio stations and hundreds of dance clubs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boogaloo   (724 words)

  
 Boogaloo Bar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Boogaloo is not a "bar" though it does have Italian inported stools that sit along a ridiculously gorgeous long white counter that happens to both light up and hold those drinks with nifty names.
Boogaloo is not a "bar" though it is open 6pm-4am Tuesday through Sunday and people tend to gather there to talk, write, think, play, dance, and/or listen to great music.
Boogaloo will only ever be as great as the people that come here and make it great, but love is built into every corner, which is a pretty perfect starting point.
webtunes.com /venue/boogaloo.cfm   (268 words)

  
 Boogaloo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Boogaloo originated in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
The Latin boogaloo (also spelled "bugalu") is to be distinguished from the Electric Booglaloo, a funk-oriented dance style from the 1970s.
Boogaloo was the result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son mutano and guajira, Puerto Rican/Cuban guaracha, mambo and most uniquely, American R&B/soul.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boogaloo.htm   (713 words)

  
 Boogaloo Trybe - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Boogaloo trybe is a hip-hop fusion band that formed in 1997.
Boogaloo are experienced live performers and have opened stages for such acts as; KRS-ONE, Sporty Thieves, Maestro, Rascalz, Kardinal Offishal, the list goes on.
The Boogaloo Trybe is commited to maintaining their original style which brought them to underground popularity in Ontario Canada.
artists.iuma.com /IUMA/Bands/Boogaloo_Trybe   (306 words)

  
 Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/"Boogaloo" author Arthur Kempton interview
"Boogaloo" is a term author Arthur Kempton suggests as an alternative to what was conventionally described as soul music, and a word to distinguish fl popular music from jazz.
Boogaloo encompassed three generations of signal personalities, from Thomas A. Dorsey, the so-called Father of Gospel Music, to Sam Cooke, Motown's Berry Gordy, Stax Record's Al Bell, and to the ascendency of hip-hop entrepreneurs Shug Knight and Russell Simmons.
Boogaloo is basically just a term that refers to rhythm and blues and soul music.
www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/arthur_kempton.html   (5259 words)

  
 Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is the sequel to the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin'.
Like its predecessor, much of the film's soundtrack was provided by Ollie and Jerry, comprised of the duo Ollie Brown and Jerry Knight.
Since the release of the film, the unusual subtitle "Electric Boogaloo," a reference to a funk-oriented dance style from the 1970s, has become a running joke concerning movie sequels, with commentators often attaching it as a subtitle for any facetious follow up to a popular movie (e.g.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electric_Boogaloo   (205 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Boogaloo
The Latin boogaloo (also spelled "bugalu") is to be distinguished from the Electric Booglaloo, a funk-oriented dance style from the 1970s, which came originally from Oakland in the 1960s.
Joe Cuba (born Jose Calderon (1931) in New York City) is a Puerto Rican musician considered by many to be the Father of Latin Boogaloo.
Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Caribbean and Latin genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad; the style is the primary music played at Latin danceclubs and is the essential pulse of Latin music, according to author Ed Morales.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Boogaloo   (2713 words)

  
 Boogaloo's Conch Au Naturel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Like most Islanders, Boogaloo makes conch knocking--removing the animal from its shell--look easier than it is. He counts over three spiked horns on the back of the shell and uses a pointed hammer to pound a hole just above the third horn.
Boogaloo also serves conch fritters and a wonderful creation in which he seasons a "beaten" (tenderized) conch with garlic and coconut milk and heats it over the grill in a foil packet.
Although Boogaloo has borne his share of life's "licks," his homegrown business is a shining example of Turks and Caicos ingenuity.
www.timespub.tc /Restaurant/Archive/Fall2000/boogaloo.htm   (725 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Boogaloo is a monumental work, informed by a rare fierceness of intellect, which debunks many a myth and canard about our popular music heritage even as it enlarges our understanding of its quintessence.
Boogaloo: of course, a popular dance of the late sixties, but really the synonym of choice for soul music or rhythm and blues among the cognoscenti; the word sweetly conjures the miscegenetic essence of American culture.
"Boogaloo" is the synonym of choice for soul music, or rhythm-and-blues, among the cognoscenti.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0375406123-2   (684 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: One Nation Under a Groove
The boogaloo is, or was, one of the thousand dances the land was full of in the 1960s, enumerated in inventory songs such as James Brown's "There Was a Time" and the Isley Brothers' "Nobody But Me": the skate, the swim, the pony, the monkey, the camelwalk, the shing-a-ling.
But because "boogaloo" is a term transmitted more often orally than in writing, it has enjoyed an immunity to the flux of fashion.
Boogaloo is therefore an exactly apposite title for Arthur Kempton's book, which is a panoramic critical survey of fl popular music over some seventy-five years, and which emphasizes the continuities that underlie fashion cycles.
www.nybooks.com /articles/16478   (3740 words)

  
 Williamsburg Brooklyn Bar Guide: Boogaloo Bar
While some may be daunted by the location—a part of Williamsburg that resembles areas of the Bronx more than it does Bedford Avenue—neighbors from all sides of the tracks have already warmed to the lounge's charms.
Hidden away in South Williamsburg, by the subway tracks and tucked into the ground floor of an unassuming brownstone, local rock gods hold court and flirt with the memories of their basement beginnings, surrounded by beautiful people and their nearest and dearest-or something like that.
Boogaloo stands out as an obvious purveyor of the myth that to be cool-to be exclusively cool in this town-visibility isn't on the A-list of attributes.
www.freewilliamsburg.com /bars/archives/2005/03/boogaloo_bar.html   (441 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Books / 'Boogaloo' dances around a good story
Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue, By Mark Kurlansky, Ballantine, 336 pp., $24.95 Sex, drugs, music, murder, and home-cooked meals crowd the pages of ''Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue," which is set in a diverse Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City during the 1980s.
Sex, drugs, music, murder, and home-cooked meals crowd the pages of ''Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue," which is set in a diverse Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City during the 1980s.
Boogaloo means everything and yet it means nothing." And that exactly describes the flow of ''Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue." It is a fusion of cultures, food, and personalities that waves its arms while wiggling its hips but fails to find a rhythm of its own.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/04/19/boogaloo_dances_around_a_good_story   (653 words)

  
 soul sides: BOOGALOO BANG (1 of 3)
Certainly, the boogaloo was a fad-driven music - blazing hot in 1966 and then tapering into oblivion by the late '60s.
The reason why boogaloos were so popular was because dancers loved the easy accessibility of the boogaloo rhythm - usually a simple 4/4 dressed up with tasty piano and brass riffs.
I recently reviewed the new Rough Guide to Boogaloo for NPR and wanted to expand on it vis a vis a few podcasts that call attention to the genre and its legacy.
soul-sides.com /2005/03/boogaloo-bang-1-of-3.html   (293 words)

  
 BOOGALOO
Boogaloo), a fusion of Rhythm and Blues and Cuban son montuno, was popular in the United States from 1966-69.
Boogalu was the first contemporary Latin music form that captured my attention because of its funky sounds, engaging choral chants by the audience, English lyrics, references to symbols of African American culture (“cornbread, hog maws and chitlins”), and background sounds of raucous party goers.
There were many popular Boogaloo bands including Joe Cuba, Johnny Colon, Ricardo Ray, Joe Bataan, King Nando, Joey Pastrana, the Lebron Brothers, the Hi-Latins, Pete Terrace and Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers.
www.salsacrazy.com /salsaroots/boogalu.htm   (1962 words)

  
 NUSTUDIOS DANCE COMMUNITY - All Posters: What is YOUR definition of Boogaloo?
Boogaloo is a fluid style that uses every part of the body.
How I see boogaloo is a fluidity of the body combined with angles, only what seperates it from waving is that waving is (usually) even and measured and constant, whereas boogaloo is elastic and you seem to 'slingshot' yourself into different poses by rolling your body.
And when I said "whereas boogaloo is elastic and you seem to 'slingshot' yourself into different poses by rolling your body." I didn't mean that you seemed to 'slingshot' yourself, I meant that that's what my definition of boogaloo is.
www.nustudios.com /forums/showthread.php?t=289   (1143 words)

  
 Abie Boogaloo Ames, Mississippi musician of boogie woogie and blues, and Eden Brent
Abie "Boogaloo" Ames on being named the 2001 Artist's Achievement Award Winner the Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts is here.
Boogaloo Ames is a recipient of a recent Folk Art Fellowship from the Mississippi Heritage Program.
Boogaloo and Eden is a half hour documentary produced by Mississippi Educational TV about the musical and personal relationships between Eden Brent, a thiry-something year old white female, and her teacher and partner, 81 year old Boogaloo Ames.
www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/BoogalooAmes/BoogalooAmes2.html   (665 words)

  
 Dynamite Boogaloo, Brighton - Clubs & After Hours Drinking
Attracting the freaks and eccentrics of Brighton, Dynamite Boogaloo has long been a firm favourite for many partyboys and girls.
It is with fondness that I recall her producing a pork pie from between her breasts for one lucky prizewinner.
Just to set the record straight Boogaloo Stu has not been kidnapped by ex-Take That member Jason Orange, but is merely touring the country...
www.realsoho.co.uk /company/205?meid=a439e83f253100110e567407b3133bcf   (541 words)

  
 Music.com ||| Boogaloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 RandB, mambo, and rock and roll, among other forms.
Latin veterans like Tito Puente andPerez Prado did boogaloos as well, and young (often teenaged) artists like Joe Bataan, Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers, the Latinaires, the Latin Souls, and the Lat-Teens burst onto the scene.
Still, very few artists devoted an entire album to the boogaloo, since the sound was so catchy as to be practically played out after just one or two songs.
www.music.com /style/boogaloo/1   (242 words)

  
 Sandy Nelson - Boogaloo Beat
The most amazing thing about "the Sandy Nelson talent" is this young man's ability to beat those skins in tune with the times year after year.
Sandy captures the boogaloo feeling with the same impressionistic style of beat that has kept Sandy Nelson head-and-shoulders above the other NOW generation drummers.
But what's so surprising— this young drummer has been on top of the music scene since he stopped beating his knife and fork on his dinner plate, and started channelling his ability into a snare and bass drum.
www.317x.com /albums/n/sandynelson/card.html   (248 words)

  
 NUSTUDIOS DANCE COMMUNITY - question about boogaloo.......
but yah crazy leg is a style of itz own, kinda like waving, tuttin, poppin...hmm boogaloo does look a lil rubbery tho.
My quick definition is this: Boogaloo is a series of moves that make up the boogaloo style(i.e.
Boogaloo Rolls, Boogaloo Hops, Boogaloo Walk-Outs, Twist-O's, and etc.) All moves, if done right, are put seamlessly together and executed on the beat.
www.nustudios.com /forums/printthread.php?t=914   (442 words)

  
 The Boogaloo Investigators - Live Sixties-Style Funk and R&B -- News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There is plenty of jiggery pokery and swapping of instruments as the set ranges from Little Walter to The Mississippi Sheiks via Muddy Waters, Santo and Johnny, Charlie Christian and even Davey Graham numbers and all other manner of things between the 20's and the late 1950's give or take the odd exception.
The source says it is supposed to feature 2 brand new self penned songs that are currently un-released and may act as a taster for a new long player.
Sources in Boogaloo HQ have as yet neither confirmed nor denied the speculation...
www.boogalooinvestigators.co.uk   (2627 words)

  
 Boogaloo Joe Jones: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Not to be confused with Philly Joe Jones [+], guitarist Ivan Joseph "Boogaloo Joe" Jones recorded several albums in a soul-jazz vein for Prestige in the late '60s and early '70s.
His own dates are solid, if unexceptional groove jazz, leaving plenty of space for the saxes and organ, as well as his own bop/RandB hybrid style.
Rusty Bryant [+], Charles Earland [+], and ace soul and jazz session drummer Bernard Purdie [+] are among the sidemen also featured on Boogaloo's albums.
www.music.com /person/boogaloo_joe_jones/1   (285 words)

  
 Welcome to the official Boogaloo website, 312 Archway Road, Highgate, London, N6 5AT, Now with Late Licence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Based in leafy Highgate, North London, the Boogaloo has, in its own short life achieved all of the aforementioned names.
The Boogaloo is living and breathing culture to its audience.
Jazzman is developing and opening this bar as if it were a Rock n' Roll band from the outset, from our attitude right up to the entertainment.
www.theboogaloo.org   (113 words)

  
 BOOGALOO
I could only say to him: “this is not Salsa, it's “Boogaloo”, and I briefly explained to him what it was about, so I think it would be a good idea to dedicate some time to this music genre.
The Boogaloo exploded in 1967 and after some months it disappeared in strange circumstances.
Boogaloo songs in the American hit parades was Ray Barreto's “el Watusi”, later become the soundtrack of the movie J.F.K. This rhythm didn't get too successful being unsuitable for dance, nevertheless many groups tried to put some Boogaloo songs in their albums.
www.salsadecuba.hu /boogaloo_en.htm   (520 words)

  
 Bboy.org - Boogaloo Roots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I believe there were the boogaloo dance done to salsa music, and their were one done to soul music.
This means the term boogaloo, and the existing "boogaloo" dances in other cultures/communities far pre-date anything Sam ever did.
The evidence suggests he heard about other "boogaloo" dances and he was drawing a comparison.
www.bboy.org /t62123/s.html   (772 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: The Rough Guide to Boogaloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Boogaloo originated in New York's inner-cities in the late 1960s and spawned an array of excellent bands and vocalists, but it has never received much broad recognition.
A fusion of Cuban salsa and American soul, boogaloo was the brightly burning dance craze fixating every young dancer in New York’s barrios in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Boogaloo was born out of the creativity of the 1960s generation of USA-born Latinos, who musically grafted American culture on to their Latin roots, leading many established Latin bandleaders to adopt the dance to irresistible results.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007OQ7GA?v=glance   (913 words)

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