Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
कायरा गोंत: रस्सी कूदने को अपनी ताल कैसे मिली
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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TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
the Jump Rope]
कपडे सुखाने वाली वाइर या
a clothesline, twine.
( हंसी)
समझाऊं.
is that it has a certain weight,
कुछ वज़न होता है.
that kind of whip sound.
आवाज़ होती है.
of the jump rope is.
शुरुआत कब हुई
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
कि इसकी शुरुआत
में हुई थी
to North America with Dutch settlers.
डच आदिवासी के साथ
when women's clothes became more fitted
रस्सी कूदसकते थे.
wouldn't catch the ropes.
फसने का डर नहीं था.
का इस्तमाल
to train their wards to jump rope.
in the antebellum South
गुलाम बनाये गए
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
lots of girls playing with ropes.
फुटपाथ पर रस्सी कूदते
को मिला कर
and turn them as a single rope together,
घूमा सकते हैं
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
स्थिर समयरेखा की तरह था.
was like a steady timeline --
and rhythms and chants.
और मंत्र जोड़ सकते हैं
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
संस्कृति व् पहचान का
basketball and football,
इजाज़त नहीं थी.
पर उस दौर में
लड़कियों का खेल के मैदान पर राज था.
that boys weren't a part of that.
वे सुनिश्चित करती
कि लड़के उसमें हिस्सेदार न हों.
यह एक नारी-शक्ति स्थान है
यह लड़कों के लिए है
क्योंकि लड़कों ने उनको सुना
so many hip-hop artists
इतने सारे हिप-हॉप कलाकारो
in black girls' game songs.
(जप) ... ठंडा, मोटी हिला,
जैसे आप फ्लिप करने के लिए कैसे जानते हैं,
act like you know how to flip,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
became a Grammy Award-winning single
ग्रैमी अवार्ड-जीतने वाला एकल बना
एक रेंज रोवेर कार में .... "
your street in a Range Rover ... "
डाउन दा रोलर कोस्टर ..."
down down the roller coaster,
काले शहरी समुदाय में बड़े हुए हैं
in any black urban community
helped maintain these songs
इन गानों को बनाए रखने में मदद की
and the gestures that go along with it,
इसे नें कहूँगी "काइनेटिक ओरलिटी " -
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
passed down over generations.
is the thing that helps carry it.
to carry memory through.
for all different kinds of things.
because people need to move.
can make the most creative uses.
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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