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

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caló n. Tosti was born in El Paso, and he became famous for translating his hometown’s pachuco slang, known as caló, into a pop music urban dialect on songs such as “Pachuco Boogie” and “El Tírili.” [English Spanish Music] [full cite] (Jan. 17, 2005)

canalphones n.pl. As more and more people own iPods, Zens, and Zunes, and use those players in noisy environments, in-ear-canal headphones—commonly known as “canalphones” or “in-ear monitors”—have become increasingly popular. [English Music Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 31, 2007)

canto-pop n. Canto-pop refers to hits sung in Cantonese, the Chinese dialect that is widely spoken in Hong Kong. [English Malaysia Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Jul. 24, 2004)

cantometrics n. Coining the term “cantometrics,” which he defined as meaning “song as a measure of society,” Lomax and his assistances analyzed music from Pygmy recordings to mainstream American pop through thirty-six parameters. [English Music] [full cite] (Mar. 1, 2006)

caption head n. Lane also had drum and bugle corps experience from performing with his college troupe. And he had already established a company, Front and Center Contracting, that not only had an experienced staff of marching band instructors (or “caption heads,” as they?re called in the business), but the company also had a prepared show. [English Music] [full cite] (Mar. 12, 2005)

catalog musical n. It highlights the challenges faced by writers of so-called catalog, or jukebox, musicals, an increasingly popular form of show in which a new story is woven around existing hit songs. [English Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Feb. 14, 2005)

cheater n. “Guitarists who use capos are cheating and using them as a crutch.” “OK… once and for all… lots of guys used to call them ‘cheaters.’ It was just slang. They didn’t necessarily mean the players were cheating, just that they were a way around a technical challenge. Keith is far from the only guy to have called them that. I’m sure that neither he nor most others (with any real knowlege of guitar) really feel that using a ‘cheater’ really diminishes the stature or skill of the player, they are just a solution to a problem.” [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2007)

cheesepodding n. Cheesepodding: Downloading of a song “so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter.” Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s. [English Music Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2006)

chopping n. DJ Screw made a legit production style from the practice of slowing tracks way down for a woozy, drugged-out effect. This “screwing,” which naturally couldn’t really exist too long as a singular rap technique due to its novelty factor, was paired with “chopping,” which is the application of a variety of fucked-up sound effects to the stretched-out cadence of the screwed track. [Texas English Music Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 9, 2007)

chutney music n. Like Hindi cinema, Indian music too has caught the fancy of the local people, a new type of what is known as “chutney music’ is gradually becoming very popular in the country which has whose population comprises 43.5 per cent East Indian, 30 per cent African, nine per cent Amerindian, and the rest European, Chinese and Mixed. Chutney is an up-tempo, rhythmic song, accompanied by the dholak, the harmonium and the dhantal. Originally, chutney songs made reference to deities and were offensive to religious leaders. [English Guyana Music] [full cite] (Nov. 10, 2006)

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