tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post3058022486268835864..comments2024-03-29T08:48:14.872-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Information About The 19th Century Black American "Coonjine" Dance & An Example Of The New Orleans Black Creole Song "Criole Candjo" Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-11488955079183863822017-03-03T13:59:53.524-05:002017-03-03T13:59:53.524-05:00"Black Creole" in this post and in other..."Black Creole" in this post and in other pancocojams posts refers to Creoles of any Black African heritage.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-67693717566077669822017-03-03T13:43:38.695-05:002017-03-03T13:43:38.695-05:00Here's an excerpt from http://www.knowlouisian...Here's an excerpt from <a href="http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/creoles" rel="nofollow">http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/creoles</a> Creoles<br /><br />...."Contemporary Creoles<br />Although some white southern Louisianans reject the Cajun label and continue to call themselves Creoles, the term is used today most commonly in reference to those of full or partial African heritage. Like their ancestors, these Creoles are typically of French-speaking, Catholic heritage (distinguishing them from other Louisianans of African heritage who derive from English-speaking, Protestant heritage). Significant populations of these Creoles can be found in New Orleans, the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana, the Cane River/Isle Brevelle area near Natchitoches, and in East Texas as far west as Houston. <br /><br />Moreover, a notable population of Creoles of African descent exists in California, the result of decades of immigration to Creole enclaves in places such as Oakland and San Francisco.<br />Ethnic group members themselves continue to use the terms black Creole in reference to Creoles presumed to be solely of African descent and Creole of color in reference to Creoles of mixed-race heritage. Increasingly, however, both African-derived groups have put aside old animosities based largely on skin color and social standing to work for mutual preservation. They often describe themselves simply as Creoles, despite criticism from Afrocentric groups like the Un-Cajun Committee of Lafayette. Members of that group call on Creoles of African descent to reject their Creole identity and to refer to themselves solely as African Americans.<br /> <br />Regardless, since 1982, Creoles of African descent have operated the Lafayette-based preservation group, C.R.E.O.L.E., Inc. (Cultural Resourceful Educational Opportunities toward Linguistic Enrichment), whose adopted flag reflects the West African origins of both Creoles of color and black Creoles."....Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-32315012290911097252017-03-03T13:34:40.215-05:002017-03-03T13:34:40.215-05:00Here's a long excerpt from this article http:/...Here's a long excerpt from this article <a href="http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Black-Creoles-of-Louisiana-History-and-Cultural-Relations.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Black-Creoles-of-Louisiana-History-and-Cultural-Relations.html</a> Black Creoles of Louisiana - History and Cultural Relations<br />"Perhaps as many as twenty-eight thousand slaves arrived in eighteenth-century French- and then Spanish-held Louisiana from West Africa and the Caribbean....<br /><br />Among those eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Louisiana Creoles with African ancestry, a higher percentage than in the rest of the American South was freed from slavery in Louisiana, owing in part to French and Spanish attitudes toward acknowledgment of social and biological mingling. These cultural differences from the Anglo South were expressed in laws (such as Le Doce Noir and Las Siete Partidas in Louisiana and the Caribbean) that governed relations to slaves and their rights and restrictions and provided for manumission in a variety of circumstances. Of those freed from slavery, a special class in the French West Indies and Louisiana resulted from relationships characteristically between European planter/mercantile men and African slave or free women. This formative group for Black Creoles was called gens libres de couleur in antebellum times. In New Orleans, these "free people of color" were part of the larger Creole (that is, not American) social order in a range of class settings from French slaves, laborers, and craftsmen to mercantilists and planters. Some of these "Creoles of color," as they were also sometimes called, owned slaves themselves and had their children educated in Europe.<br /><br />Various color terms, such as griffe, quadroon , and octoroon, were used in color/caste-conscious New Orleans to describe nineteenth-century Creoles of color in terms of social categories for race based on perceived ancestry. Given the favored treatment of lighter people with more European appearance, some Creoles would passe blanc (pass for White) to seek privileges of status, economic power, and education denied to non-Whites. <br /><br />In times of racial strife from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, Black Creoles were often pressured to be in one or another of the major American racial categories. Such categorization has often been a source of conflict in Creole communities with their less dichotomized, more fluid Caribbean notion of race and culture."Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-45777374117685476042017-03-03T12:09:14.499-05:002017-03-03T12:09:14.499-05:00Here's the rest of that June 6, 2005 post that...Here's the rest of that June 6, 2005 post that I wrote about that historical "thrown me a nickel, throw me a dime" song snippet:<br /><br />"<br />I remember this verse pattern when I was growing up in Atlantic City, New Jersey {1950s, early 1960s} as <br /><br />You get a nickel, and I'll get a dime<br />And we'll go out and buy some wine.<br />Drinkin wine, wine, wine<br />Drinkin wine, wine, wine<br />Drinkin wine all the time.<br /><br />-snip-<br /><br />This might have come from some recorded song that we had heard."<br />-snip-<br />I didn't mean to imply that the song that I remembered from my childhood was sung while dancing for money or otherwise. <br /><br />I just remember singing it at home (without any dancing being performed). Because my family was very religious, any lyrics about drinking wine (except for church communion) was kinda risque. So this was definitely not a song that was sung around adults. <br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com