The games black girls play : learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / Kyra D. Gaunt.

Author
Gaunt, Kyra Danielle [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : New York University Press, c2006.
Description
1 online resource (237 p.)

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Summary note
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist. When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games black girls play -handclapping songs, cheers, and double-dutch jump rope-both reflect and inspire the principles of black popular musicmaking. The Games Black Girls Play illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African Ame
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Slide : games as lessons in black musical style
  • Education, liberation : learning the ropes of a musical blackness
  • Mary Mack dressed in black : the earliest formation of a popular music
  • Saw you with your boyfriend : music between the sexes
  • Whose got next game? : women, hip-hop, and the power of language
  • Double forces has got the beat : reclaiming girls' music in the sport of double-dutch
  • Let a woman jump : dancing with the Double Dutch Divas.
ISBN
0-8147-3273-9
OCLC
780425889
Doi
  • 10.18574/nyu/9780814732731
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