Word: chants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, one Moses Anderson, Negro idler, strolled in the spring sunshine, responded vocally to the lambent weather by yodelling a popular song. Children in a nearby public school heard, through the open window, the syncopated quaverings, began to chant the words: Red Hot Mamma.* Teachers besought silence. Disorder continued. Idler Anderson was arrested, charged with committing a public nuisance. Indignant, he asked that his voice be given a hearing. Policemen, magistrate, court officials, listened to the strains of Red Hot Mamma, sentenced Anderson to the workhouse...
...staff of four instead of five lines, and the tones are designated by numae, or small homogeneous dots, in place of the figures with tails used in present notation. There is no division into bars and no attempt at time. It was the custom of the monks to chant to the limit of their powers and then pause to rest themselves and their hearers...
...reception of this document is bound to be even more amusing. Sunday schools will chant it in uneven chorus; Mencken will burn it with a violent hatesong; abread it will be read, if at all, with infinite self-complacence over the naivete of those Americans, Meanwhile, its authors are likely to wax prosperous in the Chatauquan manner...
...Student Prince. A large male chorus swings steins in the air and opens the college drinking chant. The prince in disguise falls in love with a waitress. Excellent voices, elaborate scenery, a seasoning humor and easily audible music are comfortably combined...
Glee Club to Render Chant...