Bluebeat
Origin
blue + beat, named after Blue Beat Records.
Full definition of bluebeat
Noun
bluebeat
(uncountable)- Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.
- 1971, Billboard (volume 83, number 46, 13 November 1971, page 34)Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.
- 2010, Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (page 180)Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days. On his next trip he decided to learn more about the Jamaican music business.
- 2011, Ted Curtis, Robert Dellar, Leslie Esther, Mad Pride (page 38)There we could all dance, or in my case tap my feet the night away to OUR music: ska, bluebeat and motown.