Is Dancehall a Real Word?
A Public Hall for Dancing. What Does Dancehall Mean? 1: a Large Room Set Aside or Suitable for Dances Especially: a Public Hall Offering Facilities for...
A public hall for dancing.
What does dancehall mean?
1 : a large room set aside or suitable for dances especially : a public hall offering facilities for dancing. 2 dancehall \ ˈdan(t)s-ˌhȯl , ˈdän(t)s- \ : a genre of Jamaican music derived from reggae in which an artist improvises vocals over a recorded or live beat …
Why is dancehall called dancehall?
Dancehall is named after Jamaican dance halls in which popular Jamaican recordings were played by local sound systems. They began in the late 1940s among people from the inner city of Kingston, who were not able to participate in dances uptown.
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