| 释义 |
slow drag
Also slow-drag.
[f. slow a. + drag n.]
A slow blues rhythm; a piece of music in this rhythm; a dance characterized by dragging of the feet, performed to this rhythm. Also attrib. Hence slow-drag v. intr., to dance the slow drag.
1911S. Joplin Treemonisha (music score) xxvii. 215 Directions for the Slow Drag. 1. The Slow Drag must begin on the first beat of each measure. 2. When moving forward, drag the left foot; when moving backward, drag the right foot, [etc.]. 1924Etude Aug. 527/1 An exceedingly popular jazz is the slow drag. 1926A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues ii. 9 The songs were woven of the same stuff as the other overlapping items..the over-and-overs, slow-drags, pats, and stomps. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. ix. 185 The piano was throbbing like a stringed drum and the couples slow-dragging about the floor were urging the player on to new lows. 1941W. C. Handy Father of Blues (1957) vi. 76 It was not easy for me to concede that a simple slow-drag and repeat could be rhythm itself. 1949B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore v. i. 745 This is one of the best-known of the slow-drag work songs sung by Negro prisoners in South Texas. 1968P. Oliver Screening Blues iii. 94 The shuffle of the ‘slow drag’ would have been effective at the medium tempo of the tune. 1970― Savannah Syncopators 57 On occasions..‘slow-dragging’ couples may be seen to be shuffling in a manner reminiscent, perhaps, of the ‘shout’. 1976A. Murray Stomping Blues vi. 83 There is Bessie Smith's slow-drag version..recorded in 1925. 1980Amer. Speech LV. 210 They slow-dragged to low-down blues. |