The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop
- ISBN-10
- 0814731198
- ISBN-13
- 9780814731192
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-02-06
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Kyra D. Gaunt
Description
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.
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