Entry · catalog no. 1050
bounce
/ /baʊns/ /BOWNSS
noun · New Orleans · 1990s
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A style of New Orleans hip-hop built on chanted call-and-response, ward and neighborhood shout-outs, and the relentless Triggerman drum loop; the fast, dance-driven party music the city moves to. Also the dancing done to it.
“Soon as that bounce came on, everybody in the room started moving.”
Origin & Attribution
Grew out of the New Orleans rap scene in the housing projects of the late 1980s, with MC T. Tucker and DJ Irv's 1991 "Where Dey At" widely credited as the first bounce record. The twerking the wider world later "discovered" came straight out of bounce.
late 1980s
Emerges in New Orleans project scene
1991
T. Tucker & DJ Irv, Where Dey At
2010s
National spread via twerk
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
New Orleans · 1990s
Spoken by
New Orleans Black speakers
$BOUNCEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady35 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
70/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
1991
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Bounce music — Wikipedia
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+ Cite a source64 Parishes, "Bounce" — reference
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