Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
קירה גאנט: איך חבל הקפיצה קיבל את הקצב שלו
A member of the inaugural TED Fellows class, Dr. Kyra Gaunt is an ethnomusicologist, singer-songwriter, and a social media researcher on faculty at University at Albany, SUNY. Full bio
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זה צריך להשמע כמו:
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
טיק-טק, טיק-טק, טיק-טק.
זה נשמע כמו:
the Jump Rope]
a clothesline, twine.
is that it has a certain weight,
that kind of whip sound.
of the jump rope is.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
במצרים העתיקה, בפיניקה,
to North America with Dutch settlers.
עם המתיישבים ההולנדים.
when women's clothes became more fitted
כשבגדי נשים הפכו יותר צמודים
wouldn't catch the ropes.
to train their wards to jump rope.
התלמידות שלהן לקפוץ בחבל.
in the antebellum South
במדינות הדרום בארצות הברית
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
ברונקס, ברוקלין, קווינס,
lots of girls playing with ropes.
משחקות בחבל על המדרכות.
and turn them as a single rope together,
וקושרות אותם יחד לחבל אחד ארוך,
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
אחד על השני, כמו מקציף ביצים.
was like a steady timeline --
and rhythms and chants.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
סמל עוצמתי של תרבות וזהות
basketball and football,
that boys weren't a part of that.
שזה גם קשור לבנים,
so many hip-hop artists
כל כך הרבה אמני היפ-הופ
in black girls' game songs.
בשירי המשחקים של בנות שחורות.
act like you know how to flip,
תעשה כאילו אתה יודע איך להפוך,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
שייק סמיך קר כמו קרח,
became a Grammy Award-winning single
של נלי זכה בפרס הגראמי
your street in a Range Rover ... "
your street in a Range Rover ... "
down down the roller coaster,
,down down the roller coaster
in any black urban community
helped maintain these songs
לשמר את השירים האלה
and the gestures that go along with it,
שהתלוו אליהם,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
"מלוליות תנועתית" --
passed down over generations.
is the thing that helps carry it.
הוא מה שעזר להעביר את זה.
to carry memory through.
להעביר דרכו את הזכרון.
for all different kinds of things.
אתם יכולים להשתמש בו לכל מיני דברים.
because people need to move.
בגלל שאנשים צריכים לזוז.
can make the most creative uses.
יכולים להפוך לשימושים הכי יצירתיים.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kyra Gaunt - EthnomusicologistA member of the inaugural TED Fellows class, Dr. Kyra Gaunt is an ethnomusicologist, singer-songwriter, and a social media researcher on faculty at University at Albany, SUNY.
Why you should listen
Kyra Gaunt's book, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop, published by NYU Press, won of the 2007 Alan Merriam Book Prize awarded by The Society for Ethnomusicology, which contributed to the emergence of black girlhood studies and hip-hop feminism. It also inspired a work by fellow TED Fellow Camille A. Brown, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, which was nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production.
Gaunt's articles have appeared in Musical Quarterly, The Journal for Popular Music Studies and Parcours anthropologiques, and she has contributed chapters to I Was Born to Use Mics: Listening to Nas’ Illmatic and The Hip-hop & Obama Reader, among other publications.
Gaunt's scholarship has been funded by The Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a nationally- and internationally-recognized speaker. She also is a certified expert witness in federal and state cases on the unintended consequences of social media. She also continues to perform and record as a classically-trained, jazz vocalist and R&B singer-songwriter. Her original compositions are available on the CD Be the True Revolution available on iTunes and CDBaby.
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