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"In Debt We Trust…" Film Screening and Q&A
Globalvision
Monday, November 19, 2007
4:30 pm, Roschel Center for the Performing Arts
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College Guest House
445 College Ave.
Lancaster, PA 17603
Phone: (717) 291-4287
HE WAS SWELL (PUN)
Finally, I was at the Irish Arts Center in New York tonight to hear my pal Danny Cassidy talk about and read from his brilliant book on How the Irish Invented Slang—The Secret Language of the Crossroads (CounterPunch). He could and should turn his rap into stage show. He was mesmerizing. inspiring and inspired. For interviews with Danny and reviews, see
Karen S Ellis’s site Educational CyberPlayground.1. Dat Ol' Jazz - How the Irish Invented Jazz.
Trace the etymology and sanas of the word JAZZ.
(more audio radio interviews are available to here)
2. The word Giniker which is the link that explains what the new word "JAZZ" means in the San Francisco Bulletin March 1913 and view articles and pictures that trace the Irish word and explains what it means to the public.
Her Twelve Men (1954) Directed by Robert Z. Leonard stars Greer Garson the teacher who is given advice from the Gym Teacher. He says to give the 12 boys an assignment that will get the boys excited - enthusiastic - passionate but he never says those words.
He actually says GINIKER in the movie.
3. Irish American Vernacular English Baseball words used by Scoop Gleeson in the Sports pages. Jazz appears in print 25 times in the month of March 1913, 24 times in Scoop's articles.
4. Jasm & Gism as a Source for the Word "Jazz"
From the Work of Peter Tamony
5. The Irish and Scots Gaelic Sanas of Fizz, Fizzle, and Sizzle and Teas.
From Rag to Jazz Like a lexical star the Irish and Scots Gaelic fizz and fizzle are perpetually losing their Teas (pron. chass, jass, or jazz depending on your dialect) means heat, excitement, and high spirit.
6. Irish American Vernacular English Origin of Hoodoo.
7. Juke Joint - Drinking Shelters, Tippling Shacks, boozing houses.
The word juke is believed to be derived from the African-influenced Gullah dialect of the Southeast coast, in which jook means disorderly or wicked.
8. Boogie - Borrowing from Irish into English we used the words boogie and boogaloo to mean move fast or depart quickly with no reference to music.
9. The Sacred Secret Tongue of the Saol Luim
(Slum, World of Poverty)
10. The Big "Butter an' Eggman"
The King of Teas (Jass, Heat)
11. Kid and Kiddo definitions the terms of endearment.
12. The Secret Irish Traveller Bain-Fhile (Woman-Poet) of "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Doggies" - hear the song retranslated back to the irish it came from.
13. The House of Fire - St. Bridgid's Teas (Jass) Heat
The Day of the Gin-i-ker - Tine caor (also spelled teine caor) means " a fireball, a thunderbolt, a meteor, a raging fire, lightning. "
The pagan Goddess Brigid's feast day and the Xtian St. Brigid's Day. (1) Bridget's fire (tine) is the thunderbolt (tine caor) of fifth and sixth century Irish literacy. It flashes with the sacred jazz (teas, pron. "jass," heat, enthusiasm, and passion) of knowledge. Tine caor, teine caor, caor thine, Dineen, pp.163, 1200)
14. Irish American Vernacular English gave us Gambling Slang. Learn The Sanas (Irish Etymology) of Faro, Poker and the Secret Flash Words for the Brotherhood of American Gamblers.
FIND Citations, References, and Resources
The Sanas of JAZZ, GINIKER, Mardi Gras, "New Second Line", Ráig to Rag to Ragged to Ragtime to JAZZ. Jasm, Jism, Grift, Gimmick, doozer, Buckaroos, Buccaneer, Pizzazz, Fizz, Fizzle, Sizzle, Big Butter and Eggman, Slum, Racket Fluke Lulu, Yippie Ty Yi Yo Git along little Doggies, Hip, honky, dig, jive, juke, Joint, Beat, Hoodo, Honky Tonk, Jim Crow, Kid, Kiddo, Cracker, KKK, Baloney, and Dick are all Irish and many misattributed to Wolof. Census Information for New Youk and California early 1900's. Remember in 1859 Philadelphia is the 4th largest city in the WORLD.
"There's A Sucker (Sách úr, fresh new "fat cat") Born Every Minute." The African etymology of jazz was fabricated by a New York press agent in 1917. See etymology of Bunk and Dude both are Irish.
Churches of Fire in Ireland and the South
ALTHOUGH IT HAS been more than 20 years since Alex Haley's ``Roots'' first hit the top of the best-seller list, it is still the most widely read novel written about African-American history. What is less known is that before his death, Haley was working on another book concerned with ``roots.'' This new story would begin not in Africa however, but in Ireland. Alex Haley, Mohammed Ali, writer Alice Walker, Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Gough Fagan, and Ella Fitzgerald were Irish African American. A people that both communities have chosen to forget, descended from the slave ships of Liverpool and the coffin ships of the Great Famine of Ireland. The ``Bloody Ould Sixth Ward'' turned up a number of Irish-African-American families living in New York's largest Irish ghetto before the Civil War. A history that stretches from the ancient fortresses of the Ulster kings, who traded with merchant princes of Africa two centuries before Christ, to Pete Williams' dance hall in The Five Points neighborhood of New York.