Entry · catalog no. 1050
bounce
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noun · New Orleans ·
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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.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
New Orleans ·
Spoken by
$BOUNCEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ 26 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
60/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
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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