The Games Black Girls Play: Learning The Ropes From Double Dutch To Hip Hop

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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,...more

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Published February 6th 2006 by New York University Press

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