Dan Burley

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Fred. For some reason our university library ProQuest collection
lacks the _Courier_.  I can't explain the failure of a "Dan Burley" search
either.

JL




On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Dan Burley
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ProQuest does have the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), but in searching for
> "Dan Burley" I don't seem to find any regular column by him in the
> Pittsburgh paper.  Maybe because it was a syndicated column it was removed
> for copyright reasons?
> If Jonathan or anyone else has any terms they would like me to search in
> the Pittsburgh Courier I can try to do so.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:47 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Dan Burley
>
> The intro to HDAS draws attention to the writing of Dan Burley (1909 -
> 1962,
> acc. to Wackipedia), the African-American journalist and musician who
> probably did more than any other individual human being to expand and
> popularize "jive" (urban BE slang), through his columns in the _Pittsburgh
> Courier_ and later in NYC's _Amsterdam News_, which he also edited.
> Burley wrote _Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive_ in 1944  (ISTR
> an earlier edition in 1941 that I was unable to obtain) and _Diggeth Thou?_
> in 1959.  I see that Thomas Aiello has recently edited both under the title
> _Dan Burley's Jive_ (2009). About time!
>
> My point?  ProQuest now carries the _Amsterdam News_, and a search for "Dan
> Burley" reveals hundreds of his weekly columns back to the late '30s.  They
> get jivier as time passes.  OED and others should find many antedatings
> there.  And some whippersnapper might find diss. inspiration.
> I can't find a digitization of the old _Pittsburgh Courier_, but that paper
> too should be examined.
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org