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burru Jamaica.|ˈburu|
Also buro.
[Perh. ad. Twi búru filthiness, sluttishness or Yoruba buru wicked.]
A kind of vigorous, popular, and sometimes indecent, dance; the music, esp. drumming, used to accompany this.
1929C. McKay Banjo ii. ix. 105 They played the ‘beguin,’ which was just a Martinique variant of the ‘jelly-roll’ or the Jamaican ‘burru’ or the Senegalese ‘bombé.’ 1940, etc. in Cassidy & Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1980). 1983Davis & Simon Reggae Internat. ii. 26 (caption) Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, legatees of the ancient burru drumming tradition. |