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boogie-woogie noun music specialized(alsoboogie woogie)uk /ˌbuː.ɡiˈwuː.ɡi/ us /ˌbʊɡ.iˈwʊɡ.i/ [ U ] a type of American popular music of the early 20th century, developed from blues piano music, but with a faster beat to which people can dance: She's able to improvise and play boogie-woogie on the piano. Big Joe Turner and Albert Ammons are credited with bringing boogie woogie to Carnegie Hall. the boogie-woogie a dance to a type of American popular music of the early 20th century, developed from blues piano music, but with a faster beat: He can sing and dance the boogie-woogie. His high school grades were awful, but he could do the boogie woogie. We're going to find out who can do the boogie-woogie the best. He sat down at the piano and played a boogie-woogie tune, and soon everyone was up on the dance floor. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Jazz & blues acid jazz bebop blue note blues bluesman Dixieland free jazz funk funky honky-tonk R & B ragtime reedman rhythm and blues scat tenorist trad trad jazz traditional jazz twelve-bar blues
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