Hyperlinks To Pancocojams Posts Of Foot Stomping Cheers That Include References To Astrology

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides my brief editorial note about a sub-category of children's cheerleader cheers that I call "foot stomping cheers".

This post also presents hyperlinks to pancocojams posts that have been published about foot stomping cheers that include references to astrology.

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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those who contributed cheer examples that are includes in this post.
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This pancocojams post is published on July 7, 2025, the date that Uranus leaves the zodiac sign of Taurus and enters the zodiac sign of Gemini. Click https://www.almanac.com/uranus-gemini-2025-future-written-stars   "Uranus in Gemini in 2025: The Future is Written in the Stars" for an article about this significant astrological event.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE - INFORMATION ABOUT FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
I coined the term "foot stomping cheers" in 2000 for this sub-set of children's cheerleader cheers as these cheers have (had) a distinctive textual structures and distinctive performance styles. The term "foot stomping cheers" distinguishes examples of that category from other cheerleader cheers. However, these compositions appear to have usually been referred to as "rhymes", "cheers". "chants", steps", or "stomps". 

From the late 1980s to 2009 I collected examples of foot stomping cheers from my daughter and her friends, and from other African American girls in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and some of its surrounding African American cities. My daughter also collected some examples of these cheers from African American girls in the mid 1990s as part of her role as a camp counselor in a Pittsburgh area summer camp.

As was the case with the girls from the Old Mother Hippletoe record, almost all of the examples of the foot stomping cheers that my daughter and I I've collected were from girls pretending to be actual cheerleaders. Furthermore these cheers were performed during school recesses and other leisure time usually without any real audiences. 

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A good example of the percussive 4/4 beat that is used for foot stomping cheers is the Pop song "We Will Rock You" by Queen. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk&ab_channel=QueenOfficial for a sound file of that song. 

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I've come across a number of text (word only) examples online of foot stomping cheers from African American women throughout the United States who share their remembrances of their informal childhood play. The terms that these women use for what I call "foot stomping cheers" are "cheers", "ditties", "steps", and other general terms. Unfortunately, I can only find a few YouTube videos of the performance of foot stomping cheers (and not just the chanting of modified versions of those cheers) from the 1970s -1990s. 

Also unfortunately, i haven't found any current (post 2009s) examples of these cheers online or elsewhere except modified examples that are chanted as softball cheers, cheerleading cheers, or "repeat after me" camp songs. This leads me to believe that foot stomping cheers are rarely if ever performed anymore as they were performed prior to 2010. 

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HYPERLINKS TO PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ABOUT FOOT STOMPING CHEERS THAT INCLUDE REFERENCES TO ASTROLOGY

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in.html for Part I  (Numbers - I of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_19.html for Part II (J - P). of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_11.html for Part III (Q - S) of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_24.html for Part IV (T - Z) of this series.

These examples aren't numbered as additional examples may be added if I come across them.

This series is a sub-set of a larger compilation entitled "Foot Stomping Cheers Alphabetical List". Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list.html for Part I of that series. The links to the other part of  that series are included in that post. That post also includes additional notes about the general topic of foot stomping cheers.

Additional information about a specific cheer may be found after that example in its entry in the foot stomping cheer alphabetical list.

Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-cheers.html for the pancocojams post entitled "An Overview Of Foot Stomping Cheers (Part I- Characteristic & Sources)".

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