Boogie (genre)
| Boogie | |
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| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1970s, United States |
| Typical instruments | |
| Derivative forms | |
| Subgenres | |
| Electro | |
| Fusion genres | |
| House | |
| Regional scenes | |
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USA: New York City, NY • Los Angeles, CA • Dayton, OH • Detroit, MI • Chicago, IL Worldwide: UK (London) • Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) • Italy (North) |
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| Other topics | |
| Jazz-funk • Britfunk | |
Boogie (sometimes called post-disco) is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s. The sound of boogie defined by bridging acoustic and electronic musical instruments with emphasis on vocals and miscellaneous effects later evolved into electro and house music.
Boogie, following the example of post-disco, lacks the four-on-the-floor beat (however there are examples of exceptions where some tracks will include the four-on-the-floor beat), which is a "traditional" rhythm of disco music, has a strong accent on the second and fourth beats and generally is located in the 110 to 116 beats-per-minute range. Aside from applying certain technological and promotional aspects of new wave music and having been fairly exposed to its subgenre synthpop, boogie is, however, R&B-rooted and predominantly draws from funk music. Other influences from a completely different music landscape include jazz. Typical boogie track can be characterized by mid-tempo rhythm, prominent use of slap bass (electric—in the early 1980s—and/or synthetic—mid-1980s onwards), loud clapping sound, melodic chords and, obviously, synthesizers.
The term, coined by British DJs Norman Jay and Dez Parkes, is nowadays used on eBay to refer a specific form of early-1980s dance music of African-American origin.
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