Expatiating on a topic that has been broached here before, this morning Y-H-B was waiting to have his car serviced when the advisor came up to me and said: “Your repair is movin’ and groovin’.” It is clear that by using a phrase from common parlance influenced by the whole rap and hip-hop culture we are all assaulted by daily, the advisor wanted to emphasize to me that my car would soon be finished.
All paronomasia is a form of repetition––in this case that of sound. The most prominent species of paronomasia is, of course, rhyme, which is utilized not only in poetry but in ordinary discourse and in advertising. The effect of repetition, whether it occurs in speech, in fashion, or in other forms of behavior, always adds emphasis to what is being expressed. That is also repetition’s functional core.
MICHAEL SHAPIRO
Re: ‘movin and groovin’: I read that this is Hoover Crip slang for “rolling around or kickin it or just doing some gangsta sh*t.” The Hoover street gangs have maintainedtheir affiliation with the Crips street gang. Originating in L.A., they are now spread all over the country, on the East Coast up to Massachusetts.
The Peter Gunn theme was composed and conducted by Henry Mancini, which is what you hear in the Peter Gunn TV show, wherein the generally minor-key bass line recurrently ends on a natural third (major-key note).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysMt8iL9UE
Duane Eddy did a heavy version of it, and/but he uses a flattened third (minor-key note) where Mancini uses a natural third (major-key note).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296wS9ome4M
Years later Emerson, Lake, & Palmer did it Duane Eddy’s way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbvy2R0LLrc
I don’t know, maybe the rock musicians thought that the major-minor antics of light-music composers like Mancini & Kaempfert were a bit too campy.