The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop [Paperback]

Kyra D. Gaunt (Author)

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Paperback: 221 pages
Publisher: New York University Press (February 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814731201
ISBN-13: 978-0814731208
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #566,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The Games Black Girls Play not only makes the point that black girls matter, but that the games, thoughts, and passions of black girls matter in a world that regularly renders black girls invisible and silent. Gaunt brilliantly argues that the culture of black girls is a critical influence on contemporary black popular culture." - Mark Anthony Neal, author of New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity"

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When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. 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. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Kyra D. 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 celebration of playground poetry and childhood choreography, she uncovers the surprisingly rich contributions of girls' play to black popular culture.

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"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 of black girls matter in a world that regularly renders black girls invisible and silent. Gaunt brilliantly argues that the culture of black girls is a critical influence on contemporary black popular culture."

- Mark Anthony Neal, author of New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity

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