COMMAND COMPLIANCE FOOT STOMPING CHEERS

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COMMAND COMPLIANCE FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
- Azizi Powell, 1/29/2012

WHAT ARE FOOT STOMPING CHEERS?
Foot stomping cheers are percussive, choreographed, rehearsed movement routines that are usually informally performed by two or more girls (ages 7-12 years) while they chant a composition that has a distinctive call & response structure. The earliest documented foot stomping cheers that I have found are from African American school girls in Washington, D.C., 1976. As such, foot stomping cheers are not only a category of children's play activities (or perhaps a sub-category of children's cheerleader cheers), but many foot stomping cheers (fscs) are also part of the continuum of African American oral and performing arts.

WHAT ARE COMMAND COMPLIANCE FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
Command Compliance (CC) is a sub-category of foot stomping cheers which follows this specific pattern:
1. The group commands the soloist to do something.
2. The soloist either outright refuses (saying something like "no way") or the soloist demurs (saying something like "too shy").
3. The group repeats the same command to the soloist.
4. The soloist complies with that command by either saying "okay" and then doing what was requested of her or the soloist just goes ahead and does what is commanded of her. Usually, the group's command is for the soloist to demonstrate a dance of her choice. OR
5. The soloist explains why she can't comply with the command in her main lines.

There are a number of examples of foot stomping cheers in which the group asks the soloist to do something and she immediately does it. The "Gigalo" cheer is a good example of that. Click http://cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0 to find examples of that cheer (which may be most often performed as a hand clap rhyme). To be clear, I don't consider cheers like "Gigalo" to be part of the command compliance sub- category. To be part of that category, the soloist has to at least initially refuse to do what is asked or commanded of her.

WHAT MESSAGES DO COMMAND COMPLIANCE CHEERS CONVEY?
The soloist may not immediately go ahead and do what is commanded of her because to do so would give the impression that she is weak, a push over, and therefore someone who could be messed over. Being weak is the opposite of the self- confident, tough girl ("hard") image that is valued in confrontation foot stomping cheers.

it's important to remember that foot stomping cheers are a form of dramatic play. Girls chanting these cheers must look their (often pretend) audience in the eye, speak with a moderate voice (not whisper or whine) and use a disdainful tone of voice. Body gestures such as "talk to the hand" can also be incorporated in these cheer performance to increase that performance's reality factor. However, it's important to remember that just because girls act like they are tough, doesn't mean that's the way they act in their everyday interactions. That said, it should be noted that all command compliance foot stomping cheers aren't confrontational cheers.

USING THE COCOJAMS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WITH COMMAND COMPLIANCE CHEERS
This post includes selected text examples of command compliance foot stomping cheers that are listed on Cocojams' page of Foot Stomping Cheers http://cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0. Below the words for each cheer is information about that cheer. That information is gleaned from using the cocojams classification system for foot stomping cheers which I devised in January 2012. The standard listings for the cocojams classification system are the category/categories of cheer, information about the format of the soloist's main portion in the cheer, and the rate of lyric change in the cheer.

In addition to those listings, I have noted whether the soloist's portion has rhyming or non-rhyming lines, and if that portion does have rhyming lines, if those lines are consistent or inconsistent. By "consistent rhyming lines, I mean that there is a pattern of using rhyming or near rhyming words at the end of specific lines. The rhymes are typed in bold font so that they can be easily recognize. The bold type does not mean tha these words are emphasized.

THANKS TO CONTRIBUTORS OF THESE CHEERS AND TO THE VIDEO UPLOADER!
My thanks to all those whose cheer examples I am using on this page. Also, thanks to the video uploader of the video from Bring It On-All Or Nothing which is posted at the beginning of this page.

RELATED PAGES:

http://cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0

http://cocojams.com/content/classification-foot-stomping-cheers-introduc...

http://cocojams.com/content/classification-foot-stomping-cheers-introduc...

EXAMPLES OF COMMAND COMPLIANCE CHEERS

A, B
BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN (Version #1)
Group- Bang, Bang Choo Choo Train.
Watch Indonesia do her thang.
Soloist #1: I can’t.
Group: Why not?
Soloist #1: I can’t.
Group: Why not?
Soloist #1: Because my back is achin.
My bra’s too tight.
My hips keep movin’
from the left to the right
Group:Her back is achin.
Her bra’s too tight.
Her hips keep movin from the left to the right.
-African American girls ages 7-12 years; Braddock, Pennsylvania, [Alafia Children's Ensemble], 10/1997

Cocojams classification system:
Introduction / Dance cheer

interruped soloist verse (isv) ; consistent rhyming -soloist's main lines

Lyric Change (b) No change in lyrics - Each soloist repeats exactly what was said before

C, D

E, F

G, H

I, J
INTRODUCE YOURSELF (Version #1)
Group: Hey, Shaquala!
Soloist #1: Yo!
Group: Innn-TRO-duce yourself.
Soloist #1: No way.
Group: Innn-TRO-duce yourself.
Soloist #1: Okay.
My name is Shaquala.
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1:They call me Quala.
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1: My sign is Aries
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1: I like to dance
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1: I wanna be a dancer for the rest of my life.
-Tazi M. Powell.; Pittsburgh, PA mid. 1980s; transcribed from audio tape by Azizi Powell, 1997

Cocojams classification system:
Introduction / Dance cheer

interruped soloist verse (isv) ; non-rhyming

Lyric change (c)

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INTRODUCE OURSELF (Version #4)
Introduce yourself
to shy
introduce yourself
I try my name (say your name)
yeah
I cheer for (say who you cheer for)
my sign is (say your sign)
and when I'm up I'm hot stuff
And when I'm down don't mess around
and when I'm me don't scream or shout
or you'll get knocked out!
-De'ajaih; (African American girl; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); 5/16/2006

Cocojams classification system:
Introduction / Taunting, Bragging cheer

interruped soloist verse (isv) ; inconsistent rhyming in the soloist's main lines

Lyric change (c)

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INTRODUCE YOURSELF (Version #6 from the "Bring It On-All Or Nothing" film)
Britney: Hey Amber.
Amber: Hey what?
Everybody: Introduce yourself!
Amber: No way!
Everybody: Introduce yourself!
Amber: Ok... 1,2,3,4,5,
my name is Amber and I say "hi".
6,7,8,9,10, back it up and meet my friend.
Hey Winnie!
Winnie: Hey what?
Everybody: Introduce yourself!
Winnie: No way!
Everybody: Introduce yourself.
Winnie: Ok. 1,2,3,4,5,
my name is Winnie and I say "hi".
6,7,8,9,10, back it up and meet my friend.
Hey Britney.
Britney: Hey what?
Everybody: Introduce yourself!
Britney: No way.
Everybody: Introduce yourself!
Britney: Ok.
Sha boo ya, sha sha sha boo ya, roll call.
My name is Britney.
I cheer so strong.
And when I shake it,
you better bring it on.
Sha boo ya, sha sha sha boo ya, break it down now.
Sierra: I'm Sierra! And...
[Sierra quits when she realized they've stopped]
- Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490822/quotes Memorable quotes for Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)

Cocojams classification system:
Introduction / Taunting, Bragging cheer

interruped soloist verse (isv) ; rhyming in the "Shabooya" verse - Note that the Shabooya roll call verse is a 4 line verse with the end rhyme in the 2nd and 4th lins.

Lyric change (c) although the Shabooya verse is a departure from the same ole same ole that the other cheerleaders chanted, which means that Britney was treating this cheer as Lyric change (e)

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SHABOOGIE (Version #12 of Introduce Yourself)
Hey (insert name)
(Yeah?)
Introduce yourself
(No way)
Introduce yourself
(Okay, my name is ______)
Yeah?
(And I´m a Wildcat)
Yeah?
(And when I boogie,)
Yeah?
(I boogie on down)
He boogies on down

Ah, shaboogie,
Ah, ah, shaboogie,
Ah, shaboogie,
Ah, ah, shaboogie
- http://campwildcat.org/pages/custompage.asp?id=47 [retrieved February 10, 2011]

Cocojams classification system:
Introduction / Taunting, Bragging cheer

interruped soloist verse (isv) ; non-rhyming

[Probably] Lyric Change (b) No change in lyrics - Each soloist repeats exactly what was said before.

K, L

M, N

O, P

Q, R

S, T

U. V

W, X

Y, Z
YOU AINT GOIN NO WHERE
All: You ain’t goin no where, no where.
You ain’t goin no where.
You ain’t goin no where, no where.
You ain’t goin no where.
Group minus soloist : Hey, Shadeya.
In-tro-duce yourself.
Shadeya: Too shy
Group: Hey, Shadeya. In-tro-duce yourself
Shadeya: I’ll try.
My name's Shadeya.
I cheer for Garfield.
My sign is Libra.
And when I’m up
Group: When she’s up.
Shadeya: I’m hot stuff.
Group: She’s hot stuff.
Shadeya: And when I’m down.
Group: And when she’s down.
Shadeya: Don’t mess around.
Group: Don’t mess around.
Shadeya: Don’t make me scream.
cause you will be _knocked _out.
-Shadeya, (African American girl, about 12 years old, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); 2002; collected by Azizi Powell; 2002

Cocojams classification system:
Introductory / Taunting, Bragging cheer

interruped soloist verse (isv)

Lyric change (c) Minimal changes in lyrics - Each soloist repeats what was said before except for the addition of her name, nickname, or initial of her first name (nickname) or the name of a dance which she demonstrates.

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