Definition of beatbox
:an electronic device that adds a backbeat, manipulates sounds, and mimics musical instruments
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During Yuri Basho Lane's beatbox musical short Make Peace, a toddler adjacent to me stomped to the rhythm, her light-up sneaker soles pulsating flashes to the beat.
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To emphasize that last point, Doug E. Fresh will appear Oct. 5 in probably the IMA's first old-school beatbox concert.
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This beatbox show includes audience participation and improvisation, and covers topics of hip-hop culture, language, math and music.
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Today, beatbox is everywhere, of course, underpinning hip-hop and rap, and thriving on the street, the subway, in parks, in clubs, on the airwaves.
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Rhythmic Circus is a high-energy ensemble of four tap dancers, a seven-piece funk/jazz band, and one beatbox artist.
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First Known Use of beatbox
1971
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