{"id":1182686,"date":"2022-01-03T09:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1182686"},"modified":"2022-01-03T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:04:45","slug":"ny-school-replaced-jingle-bells-song-because-of-racist-history-use-of-collars-on-slaves-with-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-school-replaced-jingle-bells-song-because-of-racist-history-use-of-collars-on-slaves-with-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"NY School Replaced \u2018Jingle Bells\u2019 Song Because Of Racist History, \u2018Use Of Collars On Slaves With Bells\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-school-replaced-jingle-bells-song-because-of-racist-history-use-of-collars-on-slaves-with-bells%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1182686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A public school in New York state chose not to sing Christmas\u2019 \u201cJingle Bells\u201d because of the claim that its origins are linked to 19th-century minstrel shows.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rochesterbeacon.com\/2021\/12\/23\/jingle-all-the-way-maybe-not\/\">Rochester Beacon<\/a> reported on December 23 that \u201c\u2018Jingle Bells\u2019 isn\u2019t being sung anymore at Brighton\u2019s Council Rock Primary School\u201d because \u2014 according to Council Rock principal Matt Tappon \u2014 it has \u201cthe potential to be controversial or offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTappon and other staff confirmed by email that the decision to remove the song was based in part on information in a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/theatre-survey\/article\/story-i-must-tell-jingle-bells-in-the-minstrel-repertoire\/D42C78950A58BDB88290954F73B195B2\">article<\/a> written by professor Kyna Hamill, director of Boston University\u2019s Core Curriculum,\u201d the Beacon explained. \u201cHamill\u2019s article is a deep dive (nearly 12,000 words including appendices and footnotes) into the origin of \u2018Jingle Bells,\u2019 the life of its composer, James L. Pierpont, and the popularity of sleigh songs in the mid-1800s. She found documents showing that the song\u2019s first public performance may have occurred in 1857 at a Boston minstrel show. Minstrelsy was a then-popular form of entertainment in which white actors performed in blackface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When told that the school removed \u201cJingle Bells\u201d in part because of her research, Hamill responded, \u201cI am actually quite shocked the school would remove the song from the repertoire. \u2026 I, in no way, recommended that it stopped being sung by children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy article tried to tell the story of the first performance of the song, I do not connect this to the popular Christmas tradition of singing the song now,\u201d Hamill continued. \u201cThe very fact of (\u2018Jingle Bells\u2019) popularity has to do (with) the very catchy melody of the song, and not to be only understood in terms of its origins in the minstrel tradition. \u2026 I would say it should very much be sung and enjoyed, and perhaps discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Hamill\u2019s response, Allison Rioux, Brighton Central School District assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, offered a different reason for removing \u201cJingle Bells.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome suggest that the use of collars on slaves with bells to send an alert that they were running away is connected to the origin of the song Jingle Bells,\u201d Rioux wrote. \u201cWhile we are not taking a stance to whether that is true or not, we do feel strongly that this line of thinking is not in agreement with our district beliefs to value all cultures and experiences of our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this reason,\u201d Rioux concluded, \u201calong with the idea that there are hundreds of other 5 note songs, we made the decision to not teach the song directly to all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of bells on enslaved peoples may be true, but there is no connection to the song that I have discovered in my research,\u201d Hamill responded. \u201cPerhaps finding a well-referenced source for this claim might be in order if that is what (school officials) want to determine as the cause for not singing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"> @ighaworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public school in New York state chose not to sing Christmas\u2019 \u201cJingle Bells\u201d because of the claim that its origins are linked to 19th-century minstrel shows. The Rochester Beacon reported on December 23 that \u201c\u2018Jingle Bells\u2019 isn\u2019t being sung anymore at Brighton\u2019s Council Rock Primary School\u201d because \u2014 according to Council Rock principal Matt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}