ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Starting with the twist, the 1960s was a decade for new dances. One of these, the boogaloo, was a Latin-American dance that first became popular in New York, where its principal exponent was the Joe Cuba Sextet. The group had a million-seller in the US with the highly infectious “Bang Bang” (1966).

Detailed explanation-2: -The boogaloo movement, whose adherents are often referred to as boogaloo boys or boogaloo bois, is a loosely organized far-right anti-government extremist movement in the United States. It has also been described as a militia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sometimes stylized as bugalu, boogaloo is both a dance and musical genre. It’s most popularly a mixture of Latin styles, such as mambo, cha cha and pachanga, with doo-wop and soul. And it’s upbeat and easy to dance to-a freeform dance where bodies jerk in time to the music.

Detailed explanation-4: -Boogaloo is a freestyle, improvisational street dance movement of soulful steps and robotic movements which make up the foundations of popping dance and turfing; boogaloo can incorporate illusions, restriction of muscles, stops, robot and/or wiggling.