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tangana|tæŋˈgɑːnə|
Also Tangana.
[Origin unknown.]
A type of rhythm used in jazz music (see quot. 1952).
1926A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 24 The Habañera or tango rhythm... Both the justification for its use in Negro music, and the explanation of its subsequent popularity among the Negroes themselves, are supplied on acceptance of the plausible theory that this is an African rhythm (the native word is tangana) and Spanish only by adoption through the Moors. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) iv. 31 In 1914 Handy published his ‘St. Louis Blues’ with its provocative Tangana rhythm, which is a kind of habanera or tango beat consisting of a dotted quarter, an eighth-note, and two quarter-notes. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene iii. 41 An admixture of certain rhythms such as the tangana, or the habanera which..roused a particularly vivid response among continental negroes. |