It reminds me of a person's nose. When did "boogie" begin being referred to as dancing? Was it only during the 70's disco era? Where did the terminology originate from? Does anyone know?
2007-12-25 13:10:28 · 6 answers · asked by LAgirl 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
boogie (v.) -- originally "dance to boogie music," a late 1960s style of rock music (based on blues chords), from earlier boogie, a style of blues (1941), short for boogie-woogie (1928), a reduplication of boogie, 1917, which meant "rent party" in American English slang.
FYI, Alexis: In New England we've called them "boogies" since the 1800's! (http://books.google.com/books?id=G3QKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA77&dq=boogie+etymology&num=50&as_brr=1&ei=YblxR_DKCZHWiQH_-MmeDw&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA18,M1)
2007-12-25 13:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boogie came before the 70's.
2007-12-25 13:12:58 · answer #2 · answered by Lelar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
70s
2007-12-25 13:13:26 · answer #3 · answered by Holly Golightly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1930, the boogie begun to be used as dancing.
2007-12-25 13:17:33 · answer #4 · answered by ph100_0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boogie also means other things.
such as "lets boogie"
"ya lil boogie"
There is no reason to think boogie develop in the disco times because thats kind of sterio typing in a sorta way..
I think it developed when mo-town was popular in the late 60s.
2007-12-25 13:14:57 · answer #5 · answered by TIFFY 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the term comes from the early 50's when a thing called "Scatting" was created...jazz artist would often sing thier hearts out and spurt what to most sounded like nonsense, but was later reguarded as a jazz type skill.
Cab Callaway became famous for this.
2007-12-25 13:20:05 · answer #6 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋