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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827573703321

Autore

Gaunt Kyra Danielle

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-3273-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

780/.89/96073

Soggetti

African Americans - Music - History and criticism

African American girls - Social life and customs

Rap (Music) - History and criticism

Singing games - United States

Double dutch (Rope skipping) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

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