Analog Memories, June 24, 2023
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Basic words:
Entire Group: Jump in Jump out
Turn yourself about
Jump in Jump out
Turn yourself about
First Soloist- My name is Armando
First Soloist - And I'm a dancer
Group- Un Hun
First Soloist- Gonna be a dancer
Group- Wooo!
First Soloist -Every day of my life
[Continue from the beginning with the next soloist and continues in this pattern
till everyone has had a turn as the soloist.]
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post presents some early examples of the children's cheer "Jump In Jump Out And Turn Yourself About". That cheer is most often given now as "Jump In Jump Out And Turn Yourself Around".
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to my daughter Tazi Hughes for collecting the earliest example of "Jump In Jump Out" that I have come across to date. Thanks to all the contributors of examples of this cheer/movement activity. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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EARLY EXAMPLES OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT (AND TURN YOURSELF ABOUT) OR (AND TURN YOURSELF AROUND)
"Jump In Jump Out (And Turn Yourself About/ Around") is an African American originated cheer/movement game.
Based on its textual structure and its performance activities I categorize "Jump In Jump Out" as an "Introduce Yourself" form of foot stomping cheer. (Other sub-categories of "foot stomping cheers" are "Dance style cheers", "Confrontational cheers" and "Bragging" cheers. A cheer may be a combination of more than one of these sub-categories.)
I base my conclusion that "Jump In Jump Out" is a foot stomping cheer based on its textual (word) structure and based on a description of its performance activities.
2. As is the case with foot stomping cheers, the cheer immediately begins from the beginning with the next soloist. I refer to this format as the "group/consecutive soloist" format.
In either case, the words that are chanted are supposed to fit the beat (be in synch with the rhythm that corresponds with the foot stomps and hand claps that accompanies the cheer).
I've come across some online examples of "Jump In Jump Out" which don't understand the importance of maintaining the rhythm/adhering to the beat of the song. For instance, in one video example of "Jump In Jump Out" the chanters say "I'm good at horse back riding". I want to do horse back riding all the days of my life". The words "I'm good at" and the words "horse back riding" are too long for the rhythmic pattern of this cheer.
The Performance Activities Of "Jump In Jump Out" Cheers
The earliest television example of "Jump In Jump Out" that I've come across is the 1998 television show Gullah Gullah Island. That video is given at the top of this post.
I believe that the performance activity for Gullah Gullah Island's example of "Jump In Jump Out" was modified to make it easier to perform for the general television viewers. In their performance of that cheer, the children stood in a circle. A hula hoop was laid down in the center of a circle for each child to stand and dance inside a hula hoop when it was his or her turn to be the soloist. The "hula hoop" is undoubtedly not the way that this cheer was really performed.
1. People chanting this cheer stand in a circle without holding hands
2. A method is used to determine the order of soloists.
According to my observations of foot stomping cheers being performed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, particularly in the mid 1980s, when "Jump In Jump Out" was self-initiated by children (usually girls) as part of their informal play activity, the children may have used the same method that was used to determine the order of soloists for other foot stomping cheers i.e. The person calling out "First", "Second", "Third" the fastest. That order of soloists was retained for all of the cheers that were done during that foot stomping cheer session.
In at least one YouTube video of this cheer that I have watched, when "Jump In Jump Out" is performed in school music classes or other elementary school classes in the United States, the first soloist is usually be the teacher because he or she is demonstrating to students how this "game" is played. In those videos, the next soloist is the child standing to the left of the first soloist and so on.
The next soloist may also be picked by the soloist pointing to a person forming the circle at the end of her (or his) soloist portion.
3. The motions of this cheer correspond to the words that are said. There's also a rhythmic aspect to how "Jump In Jump Out: is cheer is supposed to be chanted and performed.
Read the explanations below for performance activities for the earliest example of this cheer that I have come across which was collected in the mid to late 1980s by my daughter Tazi Hughes
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THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT" THAT I'VE COME ACROSS
All: Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Soloist #1: My name is Kadiyah.
Group (except soloist): Yeah.
Soloist #1: I like to dance, dance.
I want to be a dancer all the rest of my life.
Group: All the rest of her life.
All: Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Soloist #2: My name is Michaela.
Group: Yeah
Soloist #2: I like to cheer, cheer.
I want to be a cheerleader for the rest of my life.
Group: For the rest of her life.
Repeat the cheer from the beginning with the next soloist
and continue until every member of the group has had one turn as soloist.
-African American girls ages 9-11 years from Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania's Lillian Taylor Camp; collected by Tazi M. (Powell) Hughes in the late 1980s or 1991, transcribed
from a cassette tape by Azizi Powell in 1996.
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Tazi Hughes is my daughter. She shared these motions for the words "Jump In, jump out and turn yourself about":
1. People form a circle
2. Jump [right foot steps forward] in [left foot steps forward ; then clap]
3. Jump [right foot steps backwards] out [left foot steps backwards; then clap]
4. Turn yourself about [turn to the left; starting with your right foot five steps running to make a circle and clap two times when you get back to your front position.
Regarding the soloist portion of this cheer, soloists don't do any motion or any specific motions when they say their name. Also, the group doesn't do any motion or any specific motions when they say "Yeah" in response to the soloist.
When the soloist says that she (or he) likes to do something or likes to be something" the soloist either does a motion that corresponds with what she (or he) just said such as making swimming motions if the words were "I want to be a swimmer for the rest of my life". However, usually the soloists do some kind of short dancing steps or some other body movements when they say this portion of their soloist section.
The group ends this iteration of the cheer by chanting a clip* of what the soloist says and does the same dance steps or body movements that the soloist said.
My daughter Tazi Hughes sometimes uses "Jump In Jump Out" as a "brain break" activity for students in her first grade class at Dilworth School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She refers to this as "playing a game" with the students. Her students didn't know this movement activity before she taught it to them. The movements that they do are the same as those that are given above.
*Notice that in order to conform with the rhythm (beat) of the cheer, the group doesn't repeat the entire line that the soloist said, but only says "for the rest of her life".
In some contemporary examples of this cheer end that iteration with the soloist doing her (or his) motion or the group says something like "Alright, alright, alright"' while doing the same movement as the soloist.
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SOME OTHER EARLY EXAMPLES OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT"
These examples of "Jump In Jump Out" were submitted to my no longer active cocojams.com cultural website via an easy to use submission form that was part of that website. These examples were given without any descriptions of how those cheers were performed:
JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #1)
I remember this from a show i watched:
jump in jump out turn yourself around. jump in jump out
introduce yourself my name is keisysha. what. i'm nine
huh. and i'm so fine everyday of my life. everyday of her
life. and you go on until everyone gets a turn. and don't
forget to rhyme.
have fun. but i wish i new more but i'm only 12. bye and
keep sending chants.
-db, 3/08/2006, cocojams.com
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The show that db mentioned in that comment preceding that cheer was probably Gullah Gullah Island. A clip of that episode is given below.
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JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #2)
Jump in jump out introduce yo self (2x) my name is
Shakyra (yea) i go to school (yea) im not the teacher
(yea) i kno the rules (yea kno them rules)
keep on doing it to everybody had a turn
-Shakyra P; 5/8/2007, cocojams.com
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JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #3)
ALL: jump in jump out turn yo self around jump in jump
out introduce yo self..... 1 PERSON: my name (insert
girls name) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: i like to (say what u
like to do) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: and im gone (what
ever you like to do) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: for the rest
of my life ALL: for the rest of her life (go again with a
different person)
-Shay; 5/14/2007, cocojams.com
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_6.html
"Pancocojams Compilation Of Foot Stomping Cheers
(Alphabetical List: H - J)" for other examples of foot stomping cheers including the closely related "Introduce Yourself" cheers.
AN ONLINE (WORD ONLY) EXAMPLE OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT" WITH PERFORMANCE INSTRUCTIONS
From https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2022/08/jump-in-jump-out.html
Lyrics
(Traditional chant, adapted by Beth Thompson)
All: Let’s go – Jump in, jump out, turn yourself about,
I said, Jump in, jump out, introduce yourself.
Student: My name is ________
All: Yeah
Student: And I like _______
All: Uh huh. Your name is _______ (say student’s name)
Student: Yeah
All: And you like __________
Student: Uh huh
(Repeat with another student taking a turn.)
Movement
Formation: Students stand in a circle.
- Jump in – Students take a small jump into the circle
- Jump out – Students jump back to the place where they started.
- Turn yourself – Students turn around once.
- Introduce yourself – Students point to the student whose turn it is.
- On the rest of the chant, students clap on beats 2 and 4 of each measure.
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A VIDEO OF SOUTH AFRICAN TEENS PERFORMING "JUMP IN JUMP OUT"
Jump In Jump Out
Dan Weir, Dec 24, 2008
First song for campers and staff to sing at Camp Sizanani
"Jump In
Jump Out
Turn yourself around
Jump In
Jump Out
Introduce yourself!"
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The words that are chanted which are given in that video's summary are only a partial transcription of the cheer that the teenagers say. It doesn't include the call and response portion in which a soloist says "My name is __" and the group responds "Yeah" and the soloist says "I like to ___ [says what he or she likes to do] and the group says "Yeah" and then the soloist says "I like to __ for the rest of my life". At that point the group and the soloist perform that same movement/dance while saying "for the rest of her [or his] life".
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Here's information about Camp Sizanani from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Sizanani
"Camp Sizanani was founded as a joint venture between Global
Camps Africa, a non-profit headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and HIVSA, a
South African foundation that provides care and services to HIV-affected
individuals. Operating in the Magaliesburg area in North West Province, South
Africa, Camp Sizanani offers multiple camp sessions throughout the year for
children aged twelve through nineteen whose lives have been affected by
HIV/AIDS."...
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There's no doubt that the South African children in this video learned "Jump In Jump Out" from American workers or volunteers.
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SEVERAL OTHER VIDEO EXAMPLES OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT"
These videos are given in no particular order.
SHOWCASE VIDEO #1 - Jump In Jump Out
Jessica Fredricks, Oct 4, 2018
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Children form a circle. The soloist goes into the center of the circle.
Lyrics from the video
Jump in Jump out
turn yourself around
Jump in Jump out
Introduce Yourself
My name is Eric
Yeah
And I like Pizza
Yeah
And I can jump
Yeah.
All right all right all right
Aubrey Smalls, Sep 15, 2019
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The "Jump In Jump On" segment is from 2:33- 6:03
Here are three back to school activities you can use to
learn students names.
I used Jump in Jump
out for my fourth and fifth graders and they have a chance to introduce
themselves and tell you something they like, and can do. Johnny Plays the
Drumbeat is another name song where you say the students name as they play the
drum. Up the ladder is another name game where the students sing the song and
in-between they say their names. Jump in Jump Out, Johnny Plays the Drum Beat,
and Up the Ladder are also good ice breakers I learned Jump in Jump Out, Johnny
Plays the Drum Beat, and Up the Ladder a few weeks before school, and I did
this in the first week of with all my
classes.
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Here are excerpts from that transcript for that video:
"Jump in Jump out
And turn yourself around
I said Jump in Jump out
Introduce yourself.
[..]
Here in this video I had three
activities you can do to learn your
students names so make sure you watch
the end so you can see all three The first one I did was
jump in jump out
with my fourth and fifth graders each student has a chance to introduce
himself tell you what they like…
My name is Mr. Smalls
Yeah
I’m your teacher
Yeah
And I can dance
[In this video the children’s faces and words are blocked out for privacy purposes].
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - Jump In, Jump Out
Traci Patterson, Aug 23, 2018
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