This week we had the opportunity to research a music genre of our choice. I decided to research boogaloo because I hadn’t heard of this word before and I thought it was a funny word. Looking at Google Books Ngram Viewer, I found that Boogaloo was not heard of until about 1962 and had a peak period around 1970. Boogaloo is an a form of latin music incorporating R&B, mambo, and rock& roll. It seemed that most artists did not devote an entire album to this particular music genre, yet artists still created boogaloo type music. Around 1970, salsa started emerging as a type of music, making boogaloo old news in a sense. Although, a few artists included boogaloo in their albums for comic relief. From my perspective, boogaloo wasn’t a popular type of music and it seemed that other genres took over the music industry.