tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post4237466269399296335..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Latino Protest Chants For Immigration Reform & Against Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-44988432074368040332015-10-27T08:31:26.662-04:002015-10-27T08:31:26.662-04:00Very informative post on Latino Protest Chants For...Very informative post on Latino Protest Chants For Immigration Reform & Against Arizona Sheriff Arpaio .<br /><a href="http://www.phoeniximmigrationlawyers.co/" rel="nofollow">immigration attorney</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09587310008845979344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-53931541211887129102015-04-24T17:41:27.536-04:002015-04-24T17:41:27.536-04:00Returning to the Latino protests marches that is t...Returning to the Latino protests marches that is the focus of this post, it was interesting to note the presence of Latino men playing West African djembe drums (in each of the videos) and a person playing agogo (West African iron bell).<br /><br />Also, I noticed Latinos in these protest marches with raisedr fist in what I learned as the "black power salute". <br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-21060443097770904492015-04-24T17:36:10.459-04:002015-04-24T17:36:10.459-04:00The last chant that is transcribed for the video g...The last chant that is transcribed for the video given in this post as Example #2 (from 1:29-2:10) has a structural pattern that is very similar to certain African American girls' foot stomping cheers. ("Foot stomping cheers" is my term for a particular sub-set of children's cheerleader cheers). <br /><br />For example, here's a portion of the foot stomping cheer "Get Down" that I collected from my daughter and her friends (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, mid 1980s): <br />..."Group - Hey, Shayla<br />Shayla - What?<br />Group- Hey, Shayla<br />Shayla - What?<br />Group - Show me how you get down...<br />Shayla- I saida D. O. W. N.<br />And that's the way<br />And that's the way<br />And that's the way I get down."<br />-snip-<br />Click <a href="http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-cheers.html" rel="nofollow">http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-cheers.html</a> for that complete cheer and other examples of foot stomping cheers. A description of foot stomping cheers is given in Part I of that series. The link for that post is given in Part II.<br /><br />However, my guess is that the woman who led this call & response chant probably created it from a cheer (based on that 1980s foot stomping cheer) that she heard children or teens do . An example of a variant form of that 1980s foot stomping cheer can be found in a 2014 video of three White teenagers chanting a cheer entitled "Hey Cheerleaders Hey What" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLUvK4vQMQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLUvK4vQMQ</a>.<br />While that cheer's textual structure is quite simila to that of the "Get Down" * foot stomping cheer, its performance is quite different. Those girls in that video don't do any percussive, synchronized bass sounding foot stomping movements that were done by the African American girls who chanted that "Get Down" cheer in the 1980s. Also, foot stomping cheers were done for recreation by girls pretending to be cheerleaders, and there usually wasn't any audience. Therefore, the girls wouldn't have directed their demands to "show us how you get down" to the crowd as those "real" cheerleaders did.<br /><br />*"Get Down" is African American slang for "Show me your best dance moves."Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com