Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of an ongoing pancocojams series on the ways that Covid-19 may impact (or, perhaps, what should be the impact on) children's recreational activities, with particular attention to children's singing games, hand clap games, and hand slap games.
Read my editor's note below for more information about this pancocojams series.
Part II of this series showcases some YouTube videos of children's circle singing games in which children hold hands and/or touch each other. All of those videos were taped before the Covid 19 pandemic.
Part II also provides a definition of the term "play parties" and showcases some videos of children performing play party songs.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-probable-impact-of-covid-19-on_17.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I showcases five YouTube videos of children's hand clap games. Part I also provides an explanation of the differences between hand clap games & hand slap games and showcases two videos of hand slap games. All of those videos were taped before the Covid 19 pandemic.
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The content of this post is presented for educational, disease prevention, and cultural purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to all those who published these examples on YouTube.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE:
This editor's note was revised on April 13, 2020 to reflect that this pancocojams post is part of an ongoing series and not Part II of a two part post.
During the Covid 19 pandemic, as part of that disease's preventative guidelines, people in many parts of the world have begun to change the ways that they greet and say goodbye to each other (i.e. no more handshakes, hugs, or kisses).
This pancocojams series suggests that people should also consider the ways that Covid-19 impacts (or should impact) children's recreational activities, with particular attention to children's singing games such as "Ring Around The Rosie", children's hand clap games such as "Shame Shame Shame" and children's hand slap games such as "Stella Ella Ola".
The videos featured in Part I and Part II of this series serve as examples of how those recreational activities conflict with the guidelines during Covid-19 of not touching other people's hands and not touching other parts of another person's body. Those recreational activities also conflict with Covid-19 prevention guidelines of maintaining at least six feet of social distance between people to help prevent against getting Covid-19.
Subsequent posts in this series will focus on examples of children's recreational singing games and comments about other children's recreational activities such as foot stomping cheers that don't necessarily conflict with Covid-19 safety rules. These subsequent post will continue the labeling as indicated in this post (i.e. the post after Part III will be labeled "Part IV" etc.) Google search the words "children's recreational games Covid 19 pancocojams for other posts in this series or click the "impact of Covid-19 on children's recreational games" tag for more pancocojams posts in this series.
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INFORMATION ABOUT PLAY PARTY SONGS
From https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=PL001
"The play-party developed out of the American frontier experience and continued in rural environs well into the twentieth century. A play-party is a social gathering in which young people "play" a game involving drama and swinging movements performed to singing and hand clapping, without instrumental accompaniment. The play-party evolved from children's games and grew up in an era when musical instruments were considered inappropriate for proper social occasions. Many churches in early American communities shunned the fiddle, which was often described as "the Devil's box." In the middle South and in the southern highlands, oral tradition preserved play-parties, and as pioneers migrated westward, they carried these traditions with them.
The play-party typically used a song like "Skip to My Lou" or "London Bridge" as a game, combined with music. Participants and sometimes bystanders sang the songs. Play-parties took the place of dance parties for children and adolescents where all other dancing was forbidden. Also popular in less restrictive communities, the play-parties continued into the 1930s as entertainment for young adults who could not afford to go to a public dance. As public schools developed, play-parties thrived on the playground. In the twentieth century playgrounds likely preserved many of the songs. Play-parties, common in most Oklahoma communities, only began to lose popularity in the 1950s."...
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Notice that many of these videos were taped while children were in their school's music class.
Example #1: Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
folkstreamer, Aug 3, 2006
A 1967 film by Bob Eberlein and Bess Lomax Hawes that looks at continuity and change in girls' playground games at a Los Angeles school
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Example #2: Alabama Gal
Laurie Rocconi, Mar 27, 2009
school dance
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Example #3: G3 Great Big House in New Orleans
ESMusicISB, Sep 19, 2012
Watch as Ms. H's class sing and dance to the American folk song "Great Big House in New Orleans."
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Example #4: Bluebird Through My Window Demo
Deborah K Oakes, Apr 24, 2013
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Example #5: Oats and beans and barley grow
Active Music, Sep 17, 2015
Want to see over 600 more videos of singing games & musical activities as well as lesson plans, notations and activity sheets for 4 - 11 year olds. Visit www.activemusicdigital.co.uk and start your free trial today.
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Example 6: Ring-Around-the-Rosie Song
AFHero66, Mar 20, 2017
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Example #7: Fun singing games - John Kanaka, Round de doo bop and more...
Singing Games, Dec 8, 2018
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"Round de doo bop" is a variant form of the children's singing game "Going To Kentucky".
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Example #8: Zudio
Mr.Wilson's Music Class, Apr 4, 2019
4-2-2019, Ms. Maguire’s 3rd Graders perform the Georgian Island’s Party Play Song: Zudio
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"Here We Go Zudio" is very similar to the singing games "Strut Miss Lucy" and "Here We Go Valarie".
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This concludes Part II of this two part pancocojams series.
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