The Games Black Girls Play : : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop / / Kyra D. Gaunt.
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award FinalistExplores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up withWhen we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Musical Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Slide: Games as Lessons in Black Musical Style
- 2 Education, Liberation: Learning the Ropes of a Musical Blackness
- 3 Mary Mack Dressed in Black: The Earliest Formation of a Popular Music
- 4 Saw You With Your Boyfriend: Music between the Sexes
- 5 Who's Got Next Game? Women, Hip-Hop, and the Power of Language
- 6 Double Forces Has Got the Beat: Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch
- 7 Let a Woman Jump: Dancing with the Double Dutch Divas
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Musical Transcriptions of Game-Songs Studied
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author