Gig Terminology

EDM number 151 in 2017-19, proposed by Mike Gapes on 11/07/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Leisure and Performing arts.

That this House pays tribute to the great African American bandleader James Reese Europe who first coined the word gig at the start of the last century, meaning a live musical engagement; regrets the current misappropriation of the term to refer to forms of casual, unsecure employment; and calls on politicians and commentators to use the term as it was originally intended.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.