单词 | big beat |
释义 | > as lemmasbig beat big beat n. (also with capital initials) music with a prominent beat, or (also in plural) the beat itself; spec. (a) chiefly U.S. rock and roll; (b) chiefly British a type of dance music, first popular in the mid to late 1990s, incorporating elements of rock, funk, and house music, and featuring a particularly prominent and powerful rhythm. ΚΠ 1958 D. Macdonald in New Yorker 29 Nov. 91/1 The Big Beat is here to stay. 1966 D. Myrus (title) Ballads, Blues and the Big Beat. 1976 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 21 Oct. 5 b/3 The Caribbean has given us gentle calypso and Trinidad's brash steel bands,..the spicy latin ‘salsa’ of Puerto Rico and the whimsical chants and big beat of Jamaican reggae. 1985 J. Mitchell Tax Free (song) in Compl. Poems & Lyrics (1997) 241 Tonight I'm going dancing With the drag queens and punks Big beat deliver me from this sanctimonious skunk. 1991 J. A. Jackson (title) Big beat heat: Alan Freed and the early years of rock & roll. 1996 Times (Nexis) 19 Mar. Does it not make more sense for the Quo to target the likes of TV audiences on the Des O'Connor Show..and leave the jocks at 1 FM to ‘large it’ with their big beat dance music and Brit pop of the moment. 1997 Straight No Chaser Spring 60/1 On the fringes, the places where people dabble with our music, we seem to be losing out to big beats and nu-house. 2000 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 6 Nov. Norman Cook doesn't disappoint with this gritty new album in which he moves on from big beat to a more dance-orientated sound. < as lemmas |
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