Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
كايرا جاونت: كيف حصل القفز بالحبل على إيقاعاته الخاصة
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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يجب أن تبدو مثل:
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
TICK-tat، TICK-tat، TICK-tat.
فإنها تبدو مثل:
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,
في مصر القديمة، وفينيقيا،
to North America with Dutch settlers.
عن طريق المستوطنين الهولندين.
when women's clothes became more fitted
ترتدي ثيابًا أكثر ملاءمة
على القفز بالحبل
wouldn't catch the ropes.
to train their wards to jump rope.
على القفز بالحبل.
in the antebellum South
في الجنوب قبل الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
في هارلم وبرونكس، وبروكلين وكوينز،
lots of girls playing with ropes.
على جانب الطريق يلعبن في الحبال،
and turn them as a single rope together,
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
مثل مضرب البيض فوق بعضهما البعض.
was like a steady timeline --
and rhythms and chants.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
للثقافة والهوية
الأنشطة الرياضية،
basketball and football,
وكرة القدم الأمريكية،
that boys weren't a part of that.
so many hip-hop artists
من فناني الهب هوب
in black girls' game songs.
من أغاني الفتيات ذوات البشرة السوداء.
act like you know how to flip,
تتصرف وكأنك تعرفُ كيف تقلبُ،
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
ثلج بارج، هزة عنيفة،
became a Grammy Award-winning single
الأغنية الوحيدة الحائزة على جائزة جرامي
your street in a Range Rover ... "
بحافلة رانج روفر..."
down down the roller coaster,
إلى أسفل قطار الملاهي،
in any black urban community
في المجتمع الأسود المتحضر
helped maintain these songs
في المحافظة على هذه الأغاني
and the gestures that go along with it,
التي تتماشى مع القفز بالحبل،
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
لما أسميه "التواصل اللفظي والشفهي الحركي"
passed down over generations.
is the thing that helps carry it.
هو الشيء الذي ساعد في حمله.
to carry memory through.
for all different kinds of things.
لكل أنواع الأشياء المختلفة.
because people need to move.
لأن تتحرك.
can make the most creative uses.
تستطيعُ تحقيق الاستخدامات الأكثر إبداعًا.
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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