et me inform the story once more. In 2007, a few listeners requested if I might do one other Ongoing Historical past episode on the origins of band names. I’d accomplished just a few previously, but it surely was definitely time to replace issues.
This time, although, I used to be struck with a thought: what do you name the examine of the names musical teams select? Rock music had been round for greater than 50 years at that time, so somebody will need to have give you a time period, proper?
The examine of phrase origins is named “etymology.” Should you’re taking a look at place names, then you definately’re into “toponymy” or “toponomastics.”
We get shut with the phrase for the examine of private names—that’s referred to as “onomastics” or “anthroponymy.” If we take a look at simply surnames, that’s referred to as “patronymics.” However a lot to my shock, there was no time period for “how a band bought their title.” This struck me as a really, very incorrect and a large oversight within the discipline of linguistics.
So I referred to as up some lecturers specializing in linguistics, together with branding consultants throughout North America. They put their heads collectively and returned with a suggestion: “bandomynology.”
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Since then, I’ve been on a mission to make use of this phrase as a lot as doable. I would like it to catch on in order that sometime, it can find yourself within the Oxford English Dictionary. To this point, although, the OED folks gained’t take my calls.
The one solution to make this occur is to maintain pushing “bandomynology” out into the general public. Bear in mind it, use it, inform your folks about it. And to assist issues alongside, right here’s one other semi-academic program on “bandomynology” to comply with up on the final present on the subject, which was in 2017.
That is 60 Extra Band Title Origins in 60 Minutes.
Songs heard on this present:
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- Wolfmother, The Joker and the Thief
- Blink-182, What’s My Age Once more?
- That Tune, Massive Wreck
- Siouxsie and the Banshees, Christine
- Silversun Pickups, Lazy Eye
- Rainbow Butt Monkeys, Circles
- OMD, If You Go away
- Butthole Surfers, Pepper
- Moist Leg, Catch My Fists
- Barely Stoopid, Dabbington
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