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The games black girls play : learning the ropes from double-dutch to hip-hop
Title
The games black girls play : learning the ropes from double-dutch to hip-hop / Kyra D. Gaunt.
ISBN
0814731198
0814731201
9780814731208
9780814731192
9780814731208
9780814733325
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright Notice Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Summary
Illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learn--how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Gaunt argues that black girls' games are connected to long traditions of African and African American musicmaking, and that they teach vital musical and social lessons that are carried into adulthood. - from publisher information.
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ACLS Humanities eBooks.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 05, 2024
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.
Contents
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.
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