英语词汇jazz的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

jazz. Enough men to form a good jazz group are credited with lending their names to the word. One popular choice is a dancing slave on a plantation near New Orleans, in about 1825—Jasper reputedly was often stirred into a fast step by cries of “Come on, Jazz!” Another is Mr. Razz, a band conduc- tor in New Orleans in 1904. Charles, or Chaz, Washington, “an eminent ragtime drummer of Vicksburg, Mississippi circa 1895,” is a third candidate. A variation on the first and last choices seems to be Charles Alexander, who, according to an early source, “down in Vicksburg around 1910, became world famous through the song asking everyone to ‘come on and hear Alexander’s Ragtime Band.’ Alexander’s first name was Charles, always abbreviated Chas. and pronounced Chazz; at the hot moments they called, ‘Come on, Jazz!’, whence the jazz music.” Few scholars accept any of these etymologies, but no better theory has been offered. Attempts to trace the word jazz to an African word meaning hurry have failed, and it is doubtful that it derives from either the chasse dance step; the Arab Jazib, “one who allures”; the African jaiza, “the sound of distant drums”; or the Hindu jazba, “ardent desire.” To complicate matters fur- ther, jazz was first a verb for sexual intercourse, as it still is to- day in slang.

词汇	jazz
词源	jazz. Enough men to form a good jazz group are credited with lending their names to the word. One popular choice is a dancing slave on a plantation near New Orleans, in about 1825—Jasper reputedly was often stirred into a fast step by cries of “Come on, Jazz!” Another is Mr. Razz, a band conduc- tor in New Orleans in 1904. Charles, or Chaz, Washington, “an eminent ragtime drummer of Vicksburg, Mississippi circa 1895,” is a third candidate. A variation on the first and last choices seems to be Charles Alexander, who, according to an early source, “down in Vicksburg around 1910, became world famous through the song asking everyone to ‘come on and hear Alexander’s Ragtime Band.’ Alexander’s first name was Charles, always abbreviated Chas. and pronounced Chazz; at the hot moments they called, ‘Come on, Jazz!’, whence the jazz music.” Few scholars accept any of these etymologies, but no better theory has been offered. Attempts to trace the word jazz to an African word meaning hurry have failed, and it is doubtful that it derives from either the chasse dance step; the Arab Jazib, “one who allures”; the African jaiza, “the sound of distant drums”; or the Hindu jazba, “ardent desire.” To complicate matters fur- ther, jazz was first a verb for sexual intercourse, as it still is to- day in slang.
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