Enter The Dragon

[Eric Nielsen]

You may be right, Larry. I little digging produced this:

"Flemons insists, though, that there is no ulterior motive in the name *Genuine
Negro Jig*. It simply borrows from the original title of the fiddle tune
that the Drops rechristened "Snowden's Jig" for the album, in honor of the
19th-century Ohio family of ex-slaves that purportedly wrote it. Minstrel
performer Dan Emmert allegedly appropriated the tune and dubbed it "Genuine
Negro Jig.""

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/carolina-chocolate-drops-the-countrys-premier-black-string-band-expand-their-soundandmdashand-their-crowd/Content?oid=1346670

Eric




On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I think they are punning around; Both OED 1. and 2. are meant. I don't have
> any specific statement from them to verify that, but there is the proximity
> of "negro" to "jig" in the title. They are a playful bunch.
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> > >On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >>  is on the local tube. A cop says to the token black,
> > >>
> > >>  "Where you goin' _jig_?"
> > >>
> > >>  I've never noticed that before, despite my having seen the movie
> times
> > >>  a beaucoup (cooler than "beaucop times" in StL, back in the day). A
> > >>  clip of the rare-in-the-wild, IME, "jigaboo," no doubt.
> > >>
> > >>  --
> > >>  -Wilson
> > >>
> > >Here's a group of talented young people--with a healthy sense of humor
> > >(thumb on nose, I suppose). Check out the title of their album:
> > >
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcqGjeNz7w
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> > >
> > I love their music, but is there any reason to believe the "jig" here
> > is anything other than the musical term for a lively kind of dance
> > (the OED's JIG 1, with cites to the 16th c., of unknown origin),
> > rather than JIG 2, 'a black person (depreciative and offensive)',
> > which then blends with "bugaboo" to form "jigaboo"?  One of the
> > musicians mentions the name of the album toward the end of the clip
> > without clarifying the intended reference, but the JIG 2 meaning
> > seems unlikely in this context.
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> > LH
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