The games black girls play
Subtitle: learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop
By: Kyra D. Gaunt.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780814731192; 9780814731208
Subjects: 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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slide : games as lessons in black musical style; title: Education, liberation : learning the ropes of a musical blackness; title: Mary Mack dressed in black : the earliest formation of a popular music; title: Saw you with your boyfriend : music between the sexes; title: Whose game? : women, hip-hop, and the power of language; title: Double forces has got the beat : sportin' double-dutch; title: Jump, sister, jump : dancing with the Double Dutch Divas.