Gaunt, Kyra Danielle.

The games black girls play learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / [electronic resource] : Kyra D. Gaunt. - New York : New York University Press, c2006. - xv, 221 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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.


Electronic books.

ML3479 / .G38 2006

780/.89/96073