Gaunt, Kyra Danielle, <br/><br/>
The games black girls play :  learning the ropes from double-dutch to hip-hop / 
Kyra D. Gaunt. 
 - New York :  New York University Press,  [2006]  ©2006 
 - 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) :  illustrations 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814733325 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>heb40121  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--Music--History and criticism.--Social life and customs.--History and criticism.--United States.--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>African Americans African American girls Rap (Music) Singing games Double dutch (Rope skipping) 
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