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The games black girls play : learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaunt, Kyra Danielle
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.