In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the term "could mean anything from a racy style of dance to a raucous party or to a sexually transmitted disease." In Peter Silvester's book on boogie woogie, Left Hand Like God – the Story of Boogie Woogie he states that, in 1929, "boogie-woogie is used to mean either dancing or music in the city of Detroit". The term may be derived from Black West African English, from the Sierra Leone term "bogi", which means "to dance" as well, it may be akin to the phrase "hausa buga", which means "to beat drums". The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word is a redoubling of boogie, which was used for rent parties as early as 1913. The origin of the term boogie-woogie is unknown, according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Boogie woogie developed from a piano style that developed in the rough barrelhouse bars in the Southern states, where a piano player performed for the hard-drinking patrons.
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Boogie-woogie is a style of blues piano playing characterized by an up-tempo rhythm, a repeated melodic pattern in the bass, and a series of improvised variations in the treble. The boogie was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music and adapted to guitar. Today, the term "boogie" usually refers to dancing to pop, disco, or rock music. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s country bands released country boogies. By the 1950s, boogie became incorporated into the emerging rockabilly and rock and roll styles.
By the 1930s, Swing bands such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Louis Jordan all had boogie hits. The earliest recorded boogie-woogie song was in 1916. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments. Blues shuffle or boogie played on guitar in E major ( Play ( helpīoogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music.
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