bhangra

noun

bhan·gra | \ ˈbäŋ-grä

, -grə \

Definition of bhangra

: popular dance music originating chiefly in the Punjabi community in Britain and marked by features of traditional Punjabi music and of disco Bhangra meshes traditional-style Punjabi songs and drumming with electronic rhythms, bringing a modernized taste of the old country to dancers with Indian and Pakistani roots.— Jon Pareles

Examples of bhangra in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Winner of the 2019 Richard Rodgers Award, this new musical celebrates the high stakes world of U.S. intercollegiate competitive bhangra, which is a Panjabi folk dance, and an Indian-American girl who wants to shake things up. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2021 Radial Grooves, an a cappella group, selects two songs to perform; the campus hip-hop and bhangra groups choreograph routines. — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020 The bhangra walk, a key BollyX dance move, mimics a squat position and gives the legs a killer workout. — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2019 Unlike those classics, though, the music video features turbaned dancers in flashy kurtas belting out Punjabi lyrics while gyrating to bhangra beats, before a stage-set of lorries. — The Economist, 3 May 2018

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