acid jazz

acid jazz

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

music combining jazz with elements of soul music, funk and disco

Finnish: acid jazz German: Acid Jazz (de) m Irish: snagcheol aigéid m Portuguese: acid jazz m

References

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

Further reading

• acid jazz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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)

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English acid jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˌaθid ˈʝaθ/ [ˌa.θið̞ ˈʝaθ]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˌasid ˈʝas/ [ˌa.sið̞ ˈʝas]

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˌasid ˈʝas/ [ˌa.sið̞ ˈʝas]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˌasid ˈʃas/ [ˌa.sið̞ ˈʃas]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˌasid ˈʒas/ [ˌa.sið̞ 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.

Further reading

• “acid jazz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014