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...supervision of the camptown bar owners association is the responsibility of the Culture and Tourism Ministry. But Choi Byung Goo, a ministry director, says he does not know if there is any prostitution in the camptowns. "The bars are tourist restaurants for foreigners," he says. "There is no way we can know how they operate their businesses." If he had gone to Tongduchon last week, he might have heard about the four Filipinas who say they escaped from one of the clubs, where they were forced to dance naked and got a day off only if they sold an impossibly...
Also from the Stauffer-Bowes collection--and developed during Harvard hockey games--are any chants sung to the tune of Camptown Races. One example, popular when facing Yale, is: "Blue's the color of mold on cheese...
...fact, Bagley has adapted the Stauffer-Bowes Camptown Races cheer for a hockeyspecific situation. Whenever Harvard is on a power play, Bagley leads the crowd in yelling: "We have one more player than you, do-da, do-da. We have one more player than...
...House Opera Theatre Ensemble. Perform "Camptown Ladies Sing the Songs of the Civil War." Adams House Lower Common Room...
...aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from the sound track of his youth. Beneath this patriotic gloss, his own thorny rhythms and free-form counterpoint combine to create music that remains imaginatively American...