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The games black girls play [electronic resource] : learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / Kyra D. Gaunt.

By: Gaunt, Kyra Danielle.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2006Description: xv, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780/.89/96073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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780/.89/96073 (Browse shelf) Available

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.