The Games Black Girls Play [[electronic resource] ] : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
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| Autore: |
Gaunt Kyra D
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| Titolo: |
The Games Black Girls Play [[electronic resource] ] : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : NYU Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 780/.89/96073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Games Black Girls Play |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-3273-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454240703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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