Kategorie:Geri Reig

Musikgattung zu der beispielsweise die Residents und Der Plan gerechnet werden. Kommt von "jerry-rig", aus dem Amerikanischen zusammengesetzt aus "jerry", Slang amerikanischer Soldaten für "Deutsche", und "jury-rig", historisch-amerikanischer Ausdruck aus der Seefahrt für ein provisorische Ersatz-Takelage nach Mastbruch. Ebenfalls in der Wortbedeutung enthalten "Jerry-built", rasch provisorisch zusammengesetzt, möglicherweise abgeleitet von Jericho, dessen Mauern durch Einwirkung von Musik zusammenfielen. Die Schreibweise Geri Reig wurde von Greg Oropeza und Moritz Reichelt1979 als Begriff für dillettantisch mit Klangerzeugern aus dem Haushalt produzierte Musik erfunden und wurde Titel des ersten Albums der Band Der Plan.

Auszug aus dem American Dictionary:

jerrycan |ˈjerēˌkan| |ˌdʒɛriˈkøn| |ˌdʒɛrɪkan| (also jerry can, jerrican) noun
a large, flat-sided metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically gasoline or water.
ORIGIN:
World War II: from Jerry ‘a German’ (probably an alteration of German ) + can 2 , because such containers were first used in Germany.

jerry-built |ˌdʒɛri ˈbɪlt| |ˌdʒɛrɪbɪlt| | adjective
badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality.
DERIVATIVES:
jerry-builder |ˌdʒɛri ˈbɪldər| noun
jerry-building |ˌdʒɛri ˈbɪldɪŋ| noun
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: origin unknown; sometimes said to be from the name of a firm of builders in Liverpool, or to allude to the walls of Jericho, which fell down at the sound of Joshua's trumpets (Josh. 6:20).

[remark of author: I'm surprised they don't draw the connection to "jury-rigged"... that Jericho link is pretty cool though, as it clearly refers to music, even *loud* music, that makes walls come down; if that's not punk, then what is?!]

Thesaurus:

jerry-built | adjective
we entered our jerry-built monstrosity in the raft race and won second prize shoddy, makeshift, badly built, gimcrack, flimsy, insubstantial, rickety, ramshackle, crude, chintzy; inferior, poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, tinpot, low-grade. antonym sturdy.

jury-rigged |ˌdʒʊri ˈrɪgd| |ˌdʒuri ˈrɪgd| | adjective
(of a ship) having temporary makeshift rigging. • makeshift; improvised : jury-rigged classrooms in gymnasiums.
DERIVATIVES
jury-rig |ˌdʒʊri ˈrɪg| |ˌdʒuri ˈrɪg| verb
ORIGIN
late 18th cent.: jury perhaps based on Old French ajurie ‘aid.’

[remark of author: in another dictionary it says, that a "jury" used to be a court only assembled for one singular case and then dissolved after, which would refer to the temporary state of it]