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360 deal n. This was the year of the so-called “360 deal,” what some are calling the wave of the future in which companies like concert promoter Live Nation cut $100-million plus deals with longtime major-label superstars like Madonna in exchange for a piece of her merchandising, touring and recording monies. [English Business Music Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 26, 2007)

anti-backpacker n. Goldenchild is different from your anti-backpacker or whatever the fuck you wanna call it. He has an open mind. He’s heard the underground hip-hop but he likes jay-z and shit like that more. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

audiation n. “My goal is to teach kids to hear a sound in their head without that sound being made,” he said. The process is called “audiation.” [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

auroral chorus n. The sounds are as mysterious as the lights themselves. Some are downright eerie, like Halloween ghost-sound-effects tapes. Others are almost familiar and comforting, similar, in fact, to the chirps of crickets or frogs. The lights also produce sounds suggesting the calls of tropical birds, whales or dolphins, which have become popular meditative-music fodder in recent years. The lull of the auroral chorus, however, is often broken up with distinctly sci-fi sounds known as whistlers—magnificent bursts of radio energy that begin in the high-frequency range and slide down to a low pitch. [English Music Science] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2006)

auroral chorus n. The South Island of New Zealand and the Tierra del Fuego region of South America, plus the Antarctic Peninsula, are where the good displays of Aurora and auroral chorus can be seen and heard. [English Music Science] [full cite] (Apr. 24, 2006)

backpacker n. I have no problem at all with mainstream HipHop. No wait, let me rephrase this, I have no problem with dope mainstream HipHop.…Ofcourse, I can’t speak for everyone on this newsgroup, or for every “backpacker,” but that’s my viewpoint. I do think underground jockers exist. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. If you’re a fan of what is collectively (and sometimes derisively) called “backpacker rap,” you’re probably familiar with Metal Face Doom a/k/a Zev Love X; his alias as the former frontman of troubled rap group K.M.D. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. Searched for your skills, but if you got ‘em, you kept them hid/Voice and flow suck, so you’re the hero of backpackers. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. Much or most of what i really like these days would be considered “backpacker” stuff anyway. but i wouldn’t call the stuff i don’t like not hip-hop. it’s all hip-hop. pop fans saying atmosphere isn’t hip-hop bothers me as much as backpackers saying that chingy isn’t hip-hop. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

backpacker n. This is the main thing i detest about these corny, revisionist backpackers : they’re all newjacks who started listening to rap in the 1993 when “36 chambers” came out and have no concept or understanding of early 80s rap or Kid Capri or D.J Ron G blends tapes and how r&b and disco are just as important to rap as funk and soul.…Gay “real hip hop” jansport wearers like NeilNice are what’s ruined hip hop, not rap tracks…that sample r&b classics and have sung hooks. [English Hip-Hop Music Slang] [full cite] (May. 18, 2006)

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