Sorry, I didn't read "call attention" quite that way.
On Sep 3, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Craig Hancock wrote:
> Ed,
> That would be the call attention part, which I didn't give an
> example for, but yours works well. I agree that it's cross racial.
> The ritual greeting I THINK is black influenced.
>
> Craig
>
> Edgar Schuster wrote:
>>
>> When I was a kid in Philadelphia we would sometimes stand outside
>> of a friend's house and yell, "Yo, Eddie," until the friend came
>> out to play baseball or football, whichever season was on. So it
>> isn't just for ritual greetings, Craig, or at least it wasn't some
>> 60 years ago.
>>
>> Ed S
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Craig Hancock wrote:
>>
>>> Patricia,
>>> The song was actually written by Gershwin (the music) in
>>> deliberate attempt to compose something that would sound like a
>>> folk song. This is from Wikipedia:
>>> Musicologist K. J. McElrath wrote of the song:
>>>
>>> "Gershwin was remarkably successful in his intent to have this
>>> sound like a folk song. This is reinforced by his extensive use of
>>> the pentatonic scale (C-D-E-G-A) in the context of the A minor
>>> tonality and a slow-moving harmonic progression that suggests a
>>> “blues.” Because of these factors, this tune has been a favorite
>>> of jazz performers for decades and can be done in a variety of
>>> tempos and styles."
>>>
>>> The lyricist (Dubose Heyward) wrote the novel (Porgy) on which the
>>> play is based. He would have attempted to write it "in
>>> character" (his attempt at a black southern dialect of the time.)
>>>
>>> When I was first learning jazz guitar, it was one of the first
>>> songs I learned, and I have come back to it time and again because
>>> it has been done so well in so many different ways with so many
>>> nuances. As i grow as a musician, the song accomodates that very
>>> well. Like many performers, though, I wouldn't presume to sound
>>> like a black woman and use what comes natural to me--"yur", which
>>> would rhyme (in my dialect) with "fur" and "stir".
>>> Up north now, "yo" is used to call attention or in ritual
>>> greeting, as in "Yo, 'sup?" for "hello, what's up?"
>>> Craig
>>>
>>> Patricia Lafayllve wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if that's not what I call "folk song drift" (there's
>>>> probably a
>>>> more formal term for the phenomenon). Every person interprets a
>>>> song/arranges a song differently, and what I see in folk music is
>>>> a lot of
>>>> word replacement/phrase shifting. Sometimes its deliberate and
>>>> for the
>>>> best: "Johnny Come Down to Hilo" originally opened with "Never
>>>> seen the like
>>>> since I been born, a big buck nigger with his sea boots on."
>>>> Clearly not
>>>> appropriate for a modern audience! The Mystic Seaport's chanty
>>>> men changed
>>>> the line to "Never seen the like since I was born, an Arkansas
>>>> farmer with
>>>> his sea boots on." The meaning is the same, but avoids the
>>>> inappropriate
>>>> terminology. Other times it's a matter of the singer remembering
>>>> a line
>>>> wrong, or adding a new phrase to an old tune, or even forgetting
>>>> the lyrics
>>>> and improvising.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what the original line was in Summertime; I know
>>>> Sarah Vaughan
>>>> sang: "Oh your Daddy's rich and your Ma's good lookin'", for
>>>> whatever that's
>>>> worth.
>>>>
>>>> -patty
>>>>
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