Music Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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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. Company Flow first crashed into our lives in 1995.…We were dumb enough to think that Rawkus could be bold, new avatars of the hip hop revolution. The word “backpackers” didn’t even have any currency at the time; the reflexive self-hatred and reverse-racial inferiority complexes that would break out like a rash across the avant-garde hip-hop scene hadn’t yet gained such an engulfing weight. [English Hip-Hop Music] [full cite] (Aug. 19, 2005)

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. See, y’all aren’t even an MC, so how can you go and make a judgement like that? Some of y’all geek asses on here don’t know shit, and all ya do is listen to them whiteboy backpacker cats. [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)

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