[Callers] [Organizers] contra dance gypsy

[Colin Hume]

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