Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
キラ・ゴーント: 縄跳びのリズムはいかに生まれたのか
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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その音は
みたいな感じですが
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
みたいになります
大きなアイデア
the Jump Rope]
すごくシンプルなものです
a clothesline, twine.
麻ひもだったりしますが
わかりませんけど
is that it has a certain weight,
ある程度の重みがあり
that kind of whip sound.
音を立てることです
of the jump rope is.
はっきりしませんが
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
始まったらしい痕跡があります
to North America with Dutch settlers.
オランダ移民がもたらしたようです
when women's clothes became more fitted
行われるようになったのは
ズボン型の下着が登場したときです
できるようになりました
wouldn't catch the ropes.
縄跳びをさせ
to train their wards to jump rope.
元奴隷の黒人の子供でさえ
in the antebellum South
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
ブルックリンやクイーンズでは
lots of girls playing with ropes.
縄跳びをするのが見られました
and turn them as a single rope together,
一緒にして1本のロープにしたり
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
回したりします
was like a steady timeline --
and rhythms and chants.
付けることができます
遙かに超えた
to contribute to something
生み出せたのです
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
黒人女性にとって
力強い象徴であり続けています
70年代の頃には
しないものとされていました
basketball and football,
アメフトをしますが
もらえません
変わりましたが
女の子でした
that boys weren't a part of that.
so many hip-hop artists
ヒップホップのアーティストが
in black girls' game songs.
取り入れているんです
歩き方を知っているフリをして
act like you know how to flip,
フライドポテトに 冷たいシェイク
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
知っているフリをして
大ヒットしたのは
became a Grammy Award-winning single
あったからです
your street in a Range Rover …”
your street in a Range Rover ... "
down down the roller coaster,
down down the roller coaster,
I'll never let you go.” と同じです
in any black urban community
育った人なら
だったんです
helped maintain these songs
こういう歌や
役割を果たしましたが
and the gestures that go along with it,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
と呼ぶもので
受け継がれていくもので
passed down over generations.
伝えられているんです
is the thing that helps carry it.
to carry memory through.
何か物が必要です
for all different kinds of things.
because people need to move.
人は体を動かす必要があるからでしょう
can make the most creative uses.
最も創造的な使い方を生み出すんです
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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