dance hall betydelse and definition

Betydelse av dance hall på svenska

• 0 especially in the past, a special building or large room for dancing in:

  • The band played in bars and dance halls.

  • She met her husband at a local dance hall.

• 1 a style of Jamaican popular music with a strong rhythm and words sung or spoken in Jamaican patois (= a non-standard form of language):

  • As soon as you hear dancehall, you want to get up and move.

  • Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" was a dancehall hit that found crossover success.