Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2009/06

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bolcon "Suite" question
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:27:58 -0400

Wow! And we're thinking that "Gangsta" rap with it's 'bi***' and
'ho', etc. is a '90s development. Truly, the more things change...

Fred Jacobowitz

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On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Marcia Bundi wrote:

> From Wickipedia:
>
> "Apache is a highly dramatic dance associated in popular culture with
> Parisian street culture in the beginning of the 20th century. The
> name of
> the dance (pronounced ah-PAHSH, not uh-PATCH-ee, like the English
> pronunciation of the Native American tribe) is taken from a
> Parisian street
> gang (see Apache (gang)), which in turn was named for the American
> Indian
> tribe due to the perceived savagery of the hoodlums. The term came
> to be
> used more generally to refer to certain vicious elements of the Paris
> underworld at the beginning of the 20th century.
>
> The dance is very brutal to the woman, and sometimes said to reenact a
> "discussion" between pimp and prostitute. It includes mock slaps and
> punches, the man picking up and throwing the woman to the ground,
> or lifting
> and carrying her while she struggles or feigns unconsciousness. In
> some
> examples, the woman may fight back."
>
> Marcia in MT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Jacobowitz" <fbjacobo@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:35 PM
> Subject: [kl] Bolcon "Suite" question
>
>
>> I'm working up Bill Bolcom's adorable, charming, "Little Suite of 4
>> Dances". However, the second movement has me a little puzzled. Can
>> anyone tell me what its title, "Apache-Jungle" refers to? Was there
>> once a dance called the Apache, or some such? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Fred Jacobowitz
>>
>> CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
>> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
>> Ebony and Ivory Duo
>>
>> You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
>> ~Doug Floyd
>
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