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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454240703321

Autore

Gaunt Kyra D

Titolo

The Games Black Girls Play [[electronic resource] ] : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : NYU Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8147-3273-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

780/.89/96073

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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



IndexAbout the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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