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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaunt, Kyra Danielle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African American girls--Social life and customs.

African American girls.

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Singing games--United States.

Singing games.

Double dutch (Rope skipping)--United States.

Double dutch (Rope skipping).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-3273-9

OCLC:

780425889