 | Olive Lewin - 2000 - 362 pages
...type of melodic music. This, judging by the use of the word "minstrel", might have included singing. "The gentlemen occasionally wiped the perspiration...the shining faces of their black beauties, who, in tum, performed the same sendce to the minstrel" [quoted in Cassidy 1961: 271]. Work Songs Songs to... | |
 | Frederic G. Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page - 2002 - 578 pages
...They divided themselves into parties to dance, some before the gombays, in a ring, to perform a bolero or a sort of love-dance, as it is called, where the...turn, performed the same service to the minstrel. LOVE-WEED see LOVE-BUSH. LOW-DOWN adv dial. G 1868 Russell 18, Adverbs: place — low-dong (below)... | |
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... celebration of ninth-night in form of pocomania' may well be the same word in slightly altered form and meaning. Williams has described a love-dance as it occurred in 1826 : They divided themselves into parties to dance, some before the gombays, in... 