2006-09-19 01:40:49 · 11 answers · asked by Jane H 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
It sure is... and guess what.... Coke is the real thing....
2006-09-19 01:43:42 · answer #1 · answered by jonti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE hokey cokey, the popular dance, has always been seen as an innocent, if raucous, form of entertainment. But an Anglican clergyman has now discovered a more sinister side: it originated as a parody of the Roman Catholic Church's Latin Mass.
Canon George Nairn-Briggs, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, says that both the name of the dance and its actions were originally designed to satirise the traditional Mass and the clergy. The dance involves participants forming a chain and flinging their limbs about in line with commands.
Canon Nairn-Briggs said: "In the days when the priest celebrated the Mass with his back to the people and whispered the Latin words of consecration with many hand movements, the laity mimicked the movements as they saw them and the words as they misheard them." The words "hokey cokey" were a mishearing, or a deliberate parody, of the Latin phrase "Hoc est enim corpus meum", which translates as "This is my body".
Canon Nairn-Briggs also contends that another corruption of the same phrase is "hocus pocus", the words believed to be used by magicians when they were casting spells.
Historical sources appear to back up his theories. The Hokey Cokey became a popular dance in 1940s America and crossed the Atlantic with US soldiers. But its origins are much older and it seems to have gained popularity originally on this side of the Atlantic, before being taken to the US by refugees. An earlier folk dance version was performed in mainland Europe in the 19th century.
The Oxford English Dictionary says that "hokey cokey" comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magicians' incantation that derives from a Latin phrase used in satanic masses, themselves parodies of the Latin Mass
2006-09-19 01:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by lady_di_ar125 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Trying to answer but it keeps going...
ohhhh, the hokey cokey, woaaaahhh....
2006-09-19 01:44:23 · answer #3 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe its called "Hokey Pokey" and to answer your question,... not sure.But, I was told that slave cotton pickers sang it to tell of a event, coded news, griping about, poking fun at a overseer, and as they did, singing soul music was also used as a tool for rhythm in picking. So I guess it depends on the reason it's being sung/ danced to.
2006-09-19 02:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by TTLC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words of the song are how you do the hokey-cokey, and the 'that's what it's all about' is the summarisation of such, ie 'and that's all there is to it, mate' or such.
2006-09-19 01:49:51 · answer #5 · answered by valiumgodmother 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I though it was the Hokey Pokey myself.....and yes...it is the meaning of life.
2006-09-19 01:43:19 · answer #6 · answered by Judy the Wench 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the Hokey Pokey and yes it is what it is all about.
2006-09-19 01:43:01 · answer #7 · answered by golgofrinchian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
Hokey Pokey? What's that about?
2006-09-19 01:48:19 · answer #8 · answered by bumblebee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to see it go head-to-head in a deathmatch with the Timewarp.
Then we'll see what it's really all about.
2006-09-19 01:53:17 · answer #9 · answered by sarcasticquotemarks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but the "Hokey Pokey" is. :)
2006-09-19 01:49:04 · answer #10 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a hard question.. it could be about the turnin around.
But now you have me thinking it could be about the 'shakin it all about'
2006-09-19 01:46:15 · answer #11 · answered by punkvixen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋