English Explanatory Dictionary

bluebeat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

bluebeat blue-beat blue beat

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.

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