8 Oct
2019
8 Oct
'19
6:12 p.m.
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:22:00 -0400, Alan J Rosenthal via Callers wrote:
Imagine if there were a dance move entitled
"Black-man swing"? (I think that part of why "Gypsy" flies under the
radar is because many people here don't immediately perceive it as a racial term.)
There's a dance called Black Nag (Playford 1670). Should we avoid this in case people
think it refers to a nagging black woman?
There's a dance called The Black Boy (Ashover Book, c. 1764)
Black Jack (Pat Shaw, 1964)
Black Mountain Reel (Tom Hinds, 1991) - might this be a derogatory term for a place where
black people live?
There's a Scottish dance of the same name (Derek Haynes)
This is all getting very silly and I agree with John Sweeney.
Colin Hume