acid jazz

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English

Etymology

Humorously coined by DJ Gilles Peterson after blending jazz records with acid house in 1988.[1]

Noun

acid jazz (uncountable)

  1. (music, jazz) A genre of popular music combining jazz with elements of soul music, funk and disco.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Ulf Poschardt (1998) DJ-culture, Quartet Books, →ISBN, page 292

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English acid jazz.

Noun

acid jazz m (uncountable)

  1. (music) acid jazz (music combining jazz with elements of soul music, funk and disco)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English acid jazz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˌaθid ˈʝaθ/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˌasid ˈʝas/
 
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˌasid ˈʃas/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˌasid ˈʒas/

Noun

acid jazz m (uncountable)

  1. acid jazz

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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