p.s.
While I’m at it, I’ll share information about my publication, “Join Up Hands”.
I published the book and CD in fall of 2020….just after the world shut down.
(Book’s subtitle is “Dances for School and Community Groups.” Cd’s subtitle is
“String Band Music for Dancing.”)The book is
Interesting thread, everyone!I do not know if the ties between “Jump Jim Crow” and “Jump Jim Joe” are melodic or lyrics or both. i just know that I don’t do it anymore, and in the world of music education it is less and less done. It definitely resides in the category of Dances With Racist
I always wondered if it was the lyrics or the tune or both. I tried to
research the tune and did not find anything that confirmed it (definitely
the lyrics). For awhile I made up my own words to the tune, but I stopped
b/c I still wasn't sure...
Patricia
Patricia Campbell
Dance Caller
I changed it over that last few years to Jump and Go! But, still, maybe
I'll drop it completely.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 2:02 PM Diane Silver via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> In a pinch, I adapted the song to be "Jump, Jump, High and Low". Not
> sure if that
In a pinch, I adapted the song to be "Jump, Jump, High and Low". Not
sure if that passes muster by today's standards or not.
Sue, I'd love to have your Popcorn Dance!
--Diane
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On 2/16/2024 10:35 AM, Sue C. Hulsether
I am interested in the Popcorn Dance as well!
Pat Reeser
On Friday, February 16, 2024 at 01:30:13 PM EST, Jonathan Sivier via Contra
Callers wrote:
I would also be interested in your Popcorn Dance. I call an annual event
called the Fairy Tale Ball at a local library. It is mostly
I'm interested in the Popcorn Dance, too!
Jimmy Akin
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:30 PM Jonathan Sivier via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I would also be interested in your Popcorn Dance. I call an annual event
> called the Fairy Tale Ball at a local library.
I would also be interested in your Popcorn Dance. I call an annual event
called the Fairy Tale Ball at a local library. It is mostly very small kids
dressed up in various costumes, It seems like I'm standing in a room full of
knee-high princesses. A jumping dance sounds like just the thing
Sue,
Thanks! I see Down in the Valley on the New England Dancing Masters
website. Is that it, or is it Jump in the Valley and I'm not spotting it?
Also, I'd be interested in your composition, "The Popcorn Dance."
Jerome
Jerome Grisanti
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Peter Amidon and the New England Dancing Master have written and published a
similar singing game— different melody and words (original) called, I believe,
“Jump in the Valley.” I feel like “Jump Jim Joe” is mostly NOT done these
days due to it being a direct adaptation of “Jump Jim Crow”.
Huh. I thought "Jump Jim Joe" *was* the less-racist alternative to "Jump Jim
Crow" (a dialect song and dance from 1828 which pretty much kicked off the
whole enterprise of blackface minstrelsy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Jim_Crow
However, here's somebody in 2012 dropping "Jump Jim
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