Jazz Slang Dictionary: Code words for women, music, sex and more during the Jazz Era.
Jazzmen had their own lexicon, reflecting their takes on music, life, and fellow artists. The musicians never used it with the public, and even if fans overheard, they would not have understood. Which was the point. The secret language allowed performers to talk about their audience without it overhearing, the way immigrant parents used Yiddish, Polish, or Italian to keep things from their English-speaking children. Or children use pig Latin, and jive, to keep things from parents.
It was a shorthand for making sense of their world, as we can see from this sampling:: a laxative that, like most everything, Louis pronounced with an accent as suggestive of Brooklyn as of his native New Orleans;: the name given to the deadliest of burgs where the only thing to do was get drunk or smoke pot, preferably hand-rolled into a fat: a lot like a handkerchief head, although it was alright, the Count advised, to “do a little sanding to get next to a chick”;Governor, Guv’nor, Guvvy, the...
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