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Re: speaking of names...



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I'm a little behind in my reading and just came across this. I just needed to set the record straight...


Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:33:29 -0700
From: mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>
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Subject: speaking of names...
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Live looping. Hmmmmm.

Rock.  Rock?  What the hell does "Rock" mean?  Does it describe the music in any way?

"Rock" is derived from the original term used by radio presenter Alan Freed to describe the "new" music of his day: Rock and Roll. Alan Freed did not 'invent' the term but borrowed it from the urban American sub-culture for whom the term was a reference to the sex act: an act that was supposedly encouraged by the new music. In the 1960s the term (like everything else) was shortened. The original music did indeed "rock" and "roll" with the emphasis on the "roll". Check out the "rolling" piano style of Fats Domino for example. Not to mention Chuck Berry's distinctively rolling rhythm guitar, Willie Dixon's bass playing and Little Richard. Remember, back then they were "rocking" their babies and "rolling and tumbling". The misinterpretation and misappropriation of the word "rock" is another tragedy of the late twentieth century. Not to mention the distortion (both literally and figuratively) of the music itself.


  Jazz?  What the hell does Jazz mean?


"Jazz" has very similar origins as the term "rock and roll" just older. Guess what the nineteenth century slang for seamen was...

 The music became known as "Jazz music" because it was born and popularised in brothels in New Orleans during the late nineteenth century.

Just to set the record straight here. I mean: it is my culture.


JPW


Maybe we need a whole *new* word like Jazz...

I'm suggesting Silis.  Easy to pronounce, has nice symmetry.  Easy to make into a logo...

This is all so very silly.  It's like naming a cat.  You can think of all the names you want, but you're going to end up calling it something else.  This is how Mewberta became Mixmaster Tubbie.

http://www.valerium.net/valerie/cats/gatos/pages/mixmastertubby.htm

Mark Sottilaro

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