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Auction archive: Lot number 9

1942 Cab Calloway Jive Jubilee of Songs and Jive Dictionary

Estimate
US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
US$60
Auction archive: Lot number 9

1942 Cab Calloway Jive Jubilee of Songs and Jive Dictionary

Estimate
US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
US$60
Beschreibung:

Title: 1942 Cab Calloway Jive Jubilee of Songs and Jive Dictionary Author: Place: NY Publisher: Mills Music Date: 1942 Description: Cab Calloway’s Jive Jubilee of Songs / Includes… Original Jive Dictionary (Mills Music, NY, 1942) Original pictorial wrappers. 48pp., 9 x 12 ins., with words and music for 18 songs popularized by Calloway and his orchestra at Harlem’s famous Cotton Club. Includes Calloway’s 1-page Jive Dictionary, on the verso of the rear cover. Includes Calloway’s 1-page Jive Dictionary, on the verso of the rear cover, giving the meaning of 125 “quaint expressions which originated among Harlem’s musicians and performers”, many of which would work their way into the general American vernacular, including Boogie-Woogie (a new dance), corny (old fashioned, stale), freeby (no charge, gratis), gravy (profits), jitter bug (a swing fan), kopasetic (absolutely okay, the tops), mellow (all right, fine), ofay (white person), pad (bed), skin (drums), yeah man (an exclamation of assent). Calloway’s jazz lexicon first appeared in 1938; a 1939 “revised edition” - a tiny 5-inch square, 13-page booklet of 200 words, titled “The new Cab Calloway’s cat-ologue/A Hepster’s Dictionary” - has been called “the first dictionary published by a black person”; it was reprinted in 1944 as a 16-page, “New Cab Calloway’s Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive”. All three separate printings are now very rare, leaving this 1942 sheet music extract as the only obtainable version. (See other listings in this auction, from 1934 to 1953, about the “jargon of jazz”). Lot Amendments Condition: Slight wear to spine, very good. Item number: 248065

Auction archive: Lot number 9
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: 1942 Cab Calloway Jive Jubilee of Songs and Jive Dictionary Author: Place: NY Publisher: Mills Music Date: 1942 Description: Cab Calloway’s Jive Jubilee of Songs / Includes… Original Jive Dictionary (Mills Music, NY, 1942) Original pictorial wrappers. 48pp., 9 x 12 ins., with words and music for 18 songs popularized by Calloway and his orchestra at Harlem’s famous Cotton Club. Includes Calloway’s 1-page Jive Dictionary, on the verso of the rear cover. Includes Calloway’s 1-page Jive Dictionary, on the verso of the rear cover, giving the meaning of 125 “quaint expressions which originated among Harlem’s musicians and performers”, many of which would work their way into the general American vernacular, including Boogie-Woogie (a new dance), corny (old fashioned, stale), freeby (no charge, gratis), gravy (profits), jitter bug (a swing fan), kopasetic (absolutely okay, the tops), mellow (all right, fine), ofay (white person), pad (bed), skin (drums), yeah man (an exclamation of assent). Calloway’s jazz lexicon first appeared in 1938; a 1939 “revised edition” - a tiny 5-inch square, 13-page booklet of 200 words, titled “The new Cab Calloway’s cat-ologue/A Hepster’s Dictionary” - has been called “the first dictionary published by a black person”; it was reprinted in 1944 as a 16-page, “New Cab Calloway’s Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive”. All three separate printings are now very rare, leaving this 1942 sheet music extract as the only obtainable version. (See other listings in this auction, from 1934 to 1953, about the “jargon of jazz”). Lot Amendments Condition: Slight wear to spine, very good. Item number: 248065

Auction archive: Lot number 9
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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