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Encyclopedia > Jive
Look up jive, jiving in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Jive or Jiving may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Jive, a general term for African American speech acts such as signifying
  • JIVE, an annual cultural festival at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in India
  • JIVE Magazine, entertainment/technology/urban culture
  • JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI in European astronomy
  • Jive, form of sign language used in William Gibson's Neuromancer
  • Jive, a Japanese publishing company
  • Jive, a computer programme which automatically replaces specific English text with "jived" versions

In music and dance: Signifyin(g) (Gates) or signifyin (slang) is an African-American rhetorical device featuring indirect communication or persuasion and the creating of new meanings for old words and signs. ... Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India is a Deemed University offering programs in technical education at Under-graduate and Graduate level. ... JIVE Magazine is a popular entertainment/technology/electronic-urban culture magazine. ... Look up Jive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jive is Swing music, or a type of quick-paced and energetic jazz. ... Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the so-called science-fiction triple crown (the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award). ... Jive Ltd. ... An encheferized Wikipedia article Jive, also known as the Jive Filter, is a novelty program that converts plain English to a comic dialect known as jive--a parody of African American speech. ...


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Modern Jive - encyclopedia article about Modern Jive. (925 words)
Modern Jive is a generic terms that covers a whole range of styles and moves.
Modern Jive is generally danced to music with 4 beats to the bar (4/4 or Common time), from latest chart hits to big band music and everything between, in a wide variety of tempos from slow to very fast.
LeRoc is a form of Modern Jive, the generic dance style that derived in the 1980s from dances including Swing, Lindy Hop and Rock and Roll, the main innovation being to simplify the footwork.
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