Meanings
- uncountableA form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area in the 1980s.
With its angular rhythm tics and woodblock percussion, Latin Freestyle sounded like a cross between Gary Numan and Tito Puente.
2002, Rob Young, editor, Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 1381 more example
Instead of symphonic disco, this sound was rooted in electro, old skool hip hop and the brash, crashing electro-funk style known as Latin Freestyle.
2012, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, page 31Synonyms: freestyle, Latin hip-hop
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area in the 1980s.
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