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bluebeat

noun

Etymology

From blue + beat, named after Blue Beat Records, a London record label that released Jamaican R&B and ska in the 1960s. The label was named after the blues genre.

  1. derived from *bautaną✻ — “to push, strike”
  2. derived from *bautan✻
  3. derived from bēatan — “to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”
  4. inherited from beten
  5. compounded as bluebeat — “blue + beat”

Definitions

  1. Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s,…

    Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, precursor of reggae.

    • Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.
    • Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days. On his next trip he decided to learn more about the Jamaican music business.
    • There we could all dance, or in my case tap my feet the night away to OUR music: ska, bluebeat and motown.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA