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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hopby: Kyra Gaunt  List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $18.00 You Save: $2.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 780.8996073 EAN: 9780814731208 ISBN: 0814731201 Label: NYU Press Manufacturer: NYU Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 221 Publication Date: February 06, 2006 Publisher: NYU Press Release Date: February 06, 2006 Studio: NYU Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The blurbs from the back of the book..."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 ... Read More 
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