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graffiti,breakdancing, andknowledge). Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc (“the Father of Hip-Hop”) is credited with innovating the techniques of hip-hop music when he used turntables and mixers to curate beats from soul and funk records in 1973. Herc moved...
dancehall(dans’hol’. dans’-) n. dance music that is an electronic mixture of various popular music styles accompanied by talking or rapping to the rhythm of the music; Historically. [Jamaican] dancehall can be viewed as the antecedent to American rap (Rolling Stone). —dance ‘-hall’, ...
English is the most widely-spoken language in the world1 and is currently an official lan- guage in 88 sovereign states and territories; it therefore follows that it has many different versions and standards (British, Irish, American, Australian, Canadian, Indian, Jamaican, Singapore etc.). ...
The termmonobobwas used all around the world, but we saw two nations adopt the term more than others: Canada and Jamaica. The spike in Jamaican usage reflects the popularity of bobsled sports on the island nation: the unexpected entry of a Jamaican team in the 1988 Winter Olympics inspired...
spice made from the berry of the Jamaican pimento, 1620s, fromall+spice(n.), "so called because supposed to combine the flavour of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves" [Weekley]. drug(n.) late 14c.,drogge(early 14c. in Anglo-French), "any substance used in the composition or preparation ...
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Words in Module 4 修选八模块四词汇教学 WordsinModule4 XiongShulan instant--instantly adj(名词前)立刻的；马上的immediate；即食的 aninstantreply Instantcoffee/noodlesn常用复数瞬间；即刻moment Icouldn’tanswerforaninstant.Inaninstant,hetookoffhiscoatandjumpedintothewater.theinstantthat…Theinstant(Assoon...
Former members, law enforcement officials, and other experts have documented some of the language used by NYC street crews; however, even if you've never been involved in NYC's turf conflicts, you may have heard some of these phrases without even knowing their meaning. Any of th...
album Band On The Run, in October 1973, we present for the very first time the full original French broadcast as used in the song “Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me).” This spoken word recording was originally made for the 1970s BBC French Language Service program, “Le Flash Tourist...