Mumbo Jumbo, the Group Read that jes grew

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

"This morning. We goy reports from down here that people were doing "stupid sensual things," were in a state of "uncontrollable frenzy," were wriggling like fish, doing something called the "Eagle Rock" and the "Sassy Bump"; were cutting a mean "Mooche" and "lusting after relevance." We decoded this coon mumbo jumbo. We know that something was Jes Grewing just like the 1890s flair-up." (pg. 4)

The 1890s drop is fascinating, the 1890s was essentially the beginning of high court sanctioned segregation
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson). A-and you have early ragtime music hitting mainstream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc).
Also, during the period (1890s-1917ish) Jazz exploded in Storyville, close to Place Congo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville,_New_Orleans). I cede the floor to those in the know in the Big Easy...

Marie Laveau:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX8RXWBXSXM


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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:50 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about from today to Saturday Oct 31, we read the first 10 pages, which
> in this
> fiction seemingly conceived from form and structure even before page 13
> where MUMBO
> JUMBO gets writ large as if the novel begins
> there....
>
> SO LET's read from page 3 to 13 and say what we see and think.
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