Talk:boom bap

Possible definition

What is this supposed to mean? DCDuring TALK 02:04, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

In use in print with this meaning?

We need some kind of use in books or newspapers or magazines or possibly scholarly journals or Usenet. This looks like a term for which we could find usage. DCDuring TALK 02:04, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Citations

This is difficult because the words have a long history, used for describing rhythm in general, but the following seem to be referring to the modern specific sense (using a single boom and a single bap).

1. • 2003, Vibe magazine, Vibe Media Group, ISBN 1070-4701, Volume 11, Number 7, page 148,

     They don't do that traditional hip hop boom bap, it's more of a boom, boom, boom, like reggae.

   • 2005, Billboard magazine, Nielsen Business Media Inc., ISBN 0006-2510, Volume 117, Number 29, page 61,

     Buckshot describes the album as a hybrid of jazz, soul and boom bap, a style of hip-hop identified by its drum arrangement.

   • 2005, Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, Out of joint: a private & public story of arthritis‎, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN , page 142,

     ... a thud (backpack dropped at the door), a boom-bap (radio hip-hop). The house is quiet ...

For the definition, I suggest: "A hip-hop style characterised by its drum arrangement, often muffled.", but I know nothing about it, so I'd better leave it to experts to add the entry. Dbfirs 09:46, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm hoping the contributor will return. I fear we have driven him away. DCDuring TALK 17:35, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I hope we hear from him again. I was unable to find the entry that had been deleted, but I see it is now back. Was there an easy way to get to it? Dbfirs 08:55, 24 August 2009 (UTC)