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Eepha-Soffa-Dill and Eephing: Found in Ragtime, Jazz, and Country Music, from Broadway to a Texas Plantation
Garber seeks to rectify the phenomena surrounding the nonsense syllable singing practice called eephing (also spelled eefing) and the phrase eepha-soffa-dill (which also has various forms and spellings). For a few years epha-soffa-dill represented what was newest and most exciting in ragtime-era show business, where it supplies an important context for jazz scatting and the country music practice still called eefing. The eephing phenomenon is discussed both on the Internet and in print in an enthusiastic but loose manner. Many singers in many genres use nonsense syllables, and this fact supplies the context for eephing and scatting. The eeph trope is one of countless instances of nonsense syllables being used in song, from the centuries-old fa-la-la to many American popular songs of the mid-nineteenth century.
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Ukulele
The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher (\"What Happens Next,\" by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer (\"The Rubber Game,\" by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot (\"The Great Dream\"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym (\"Patron Saint of Quiet Lives,\" by Raina Lipsitz).
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Kill Haole Day
Munro, as he's about to attend their high school reunion back in Hawaii, recalls the racial tension that simmered in their school. In Hawaii, no one says \"white\" or \"Caucasian\" but \"haole\", literally \"foreigner\" in Hawaiian. Although his childhood was filled racial tension, it was also culturally rich. He also mentions the Kill Haole Day.
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