The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814731201 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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From somatic historiography to serious cross-talk with girls, Gaunt offers new methodologies for ethnomusicological work. When we chant Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack is dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back, we suddenly see how musical play and embodied knowledge generates a world of raced and gendered sociality. Gaunt makes a convincing argument that the playsongs of African American girls is the foundation of African diasporic popular music-making. She calls for an engaged ethnomusi
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 American girls learn—how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. 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. In this cel
"The blurbs from the back of the book" according to K. Gaunt. "By placing black girls at the center of her analysis, Kyra Gaunt challenges us to be ever mindful of the importance of gender, the body, and the everyday in our discussions of black music. The Games Black Girls Play is an exciting and original work that should forever transform the way we think about the sources of black, indeed American, populat music. This is a bold, brilliant, and beautifully written book."-Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University"The Games Black Girls Play not only makes the point that black girls matter, but that the games, thoughts, and passions o. "A terrific read and central scholarship" according to karlyn crowley. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares not only about the history of girls games and music, black girls experience, but also the origins of hip hop. Hip Hop lineage is often conceived of as male--Gaunt reimagines the critical and central role that black girls music and games play in hip hop's story and also in influencing culture generally. A terrific read and central scholarship.. The Hand and Rope Games Black Girls Play This book was inspirational and because I am a female I was truly interested in this book. It went into details about the what and the why's of the hand or rope games girls play.
She lectures nationally and internationally on African Americans and Africans in the U.S. Kyra D. Gaunt is associate professor of ethnomusicology at Baruch College-CUNY. She is also a jazz vocalist, songwriter and recording artist.