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Gaunt Kyra D |
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The Games Black Girls Play [[electronic resource] ] : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop |
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New York, : NYU Press, 2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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African American girls -- Social life and customs |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism |
Double dutch (Rope skipping) -- United States |
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism |
Singing games -- United States |
African Americans - History and criticism - Music - United States |
African American girls - Social life and customs - United States |
Rap (Music) - History and criticism |
Singing games |
Double dutch (Rope skipping) |
Music |
Music, Dance, Drama & Film |
Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Musical Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Slide: Games as Lessons in Black Musical Style; 2 Education, Liberation:Learning the Ropes of a Musical Blackness; 3 Mary Mack Dressed in Black:The Earliest Formation of a Popular Music; 4 Saw You With Your Boyfriend:Music between the Sexes; 5 Who's Got Next Game?Women, Hip-Hop, and the Power of Language; 6 Double Forces Has Got the Beat:Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch; 7 Let a Woman Jump:Dancing with the Double Dutch Divas; Conclusion; Appendix:Musical Transcriptions of Game-Songs Studied; Bibliography |
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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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