The games black girls play : learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / / Kyra D. Gaunt
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| Autore: |
Gaunt Kyra Danielle
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| Titolo: |
The games black girls play : learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / / Kyra D. Gaunt
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 780/.89/96073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910827573703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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