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

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booty n. Booty: Also known as ghetto-tech or ghetto-funk. A Detroit invention that combines elements of house, techno, bass, hip hop and electro with glorious strip club inelegance. A musical genre keen-eyed on asses of Detroit women. Pure, politically incorrect joy that the Dutch, French and Germans have a better intuition for than most uptight Americans. [English Music] [full cite] (May. 25, 2005)

brang brang n. However, after two months of working with the band, Greenidge was not happy with the results. He said: “I was disappointed. I didn’t think the band sounded that bad to reach to that point. I don’t know what they (the judges) were listening to, because I am coming from a musical standpoint and not just no set of gimmicks and those…what people call brang brang. I have learnt from great guys like Beverly Griffith, Clive Bradley. From all these people I’ve learnt to arrange music, and music means music, not just playing any kind of jump up and wave situation” [English Trinidad & Tobago Music] [full cite] (Feb. 4, 2008)

broken beat n. It’s a sound without a fixed name, some call it broken beat, some call it new jazz. [English Music] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2004)

broken beat n. Broken beat: It’s simple: Imagine hip-hop beats falling down stairs. It’s been the sound of Detroit’s Woodbridge neighborhood for the last five years. [English Music] [full cite] (May. 25, 2005)

bumper n. The Konzertstuck for four horns, which will preface the BBC SSO’s performance of Manfred, also looks like being allowed to speak for itself. When, some years ago, the work was presented by another Scottish orchestra, the audience must have been baffled by the sight, at the front of the platform, of five hornists. The fifth was what has come to be called a bumper, an extra player employed to relieve the principal hornist and “bump up” the volume of tone. [English Music Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2006)

burping bedpost n. “The bassoon is one of the unsung heroes of the orchestra,” said Stanbery, who is also a bassoon player. “It’s sometimes called “a burping bedpost,” but we prefer to refer to it as the ‘king of instruments.‘“ [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

burping bedpost n. Ellen Lurie, a 17-year-old from Troy, Ohio said her music teacher gave her the nickname “burping bedpost” when she first began to play the bassoon. [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

burping bedpost n. Because I played an instrument during concerst season that was “inappropriate” for marching (the wonderful burping bedpost, also known as the bassoon), I was relegated to the Pit section. [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

burping bedpost n. Bassoon—burping bedpost. [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

butt rock n. Who’s worse Tesla or REO Speedwagon?…In retrospect, at what concert are you most ashamed of banging your head? I was never—as my sports writing colleagues refer to it—a “butt rock” fan. [English Music] [full cite] (May. 2, 2005)

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