Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
Kyra Gaunt: Wie das Springseil seinen Rhytmus bekam
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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sollte es so klingen:
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
the Jump Rope]
ein so einfaches Objekt.
oder Schnur gemacht sein.
a clothesline, twine.
wie ich es beschreiben soll.
is that it has a certain weight,
bestimmtes Gewicht hat,
that kind of whip sound.
Peitschengeräusch von sich gibt.
of the jump rope is.
des Springseils liegt.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
dass es in Altägypten, Phönizien, begann
to North America with Dutch settlers.
Siedler nach Nordamerika kam.
when women's clothes became more fitted
als die Kleidung für Frauen
und Frauenhosen entstanden.
wouldn't catch the ropes.
nicht mehr im Seil verfingen.
to train their wards to jump rope.
Seilspringen beizubringen.
in the antebellum South
afrikanische Kinder im Vorkriegs-Süden
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
der Bronx, Brooklyn und Queens
lots of girls playing with ropes.
sehen, die dort mit Seilen spielten.
and turn them as a single rope together,
und drehten sie zu einem Seil zusammen,
gegeneinander schwingen lassen,
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
was like a steady timeline --
kontinuierlicher Zeitstrahl --
and rhythms and chants.
und Gesänge hinzufügen konnte.
to contribute to something
als das Viertel oder die Gegend.
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
starkes Symbol für Kultur und Identität
basketball and football,
Basketball und Football,
aber in jener Epoche
that boys weren't a part of that.
dass Jungen kein Teil davon waren.
so many hip-hop artists
viele Hip-Hop-Künstler,
in black girls' game songs.
der Mädchen gehört hatten.
als könntest du einen Salto machen,
act like you know how to flip,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
Pommes, eiskalter Shake
wie man Seil springt.
became a Grammy Award-winning single
wurde eine preisgekrönte Grammy-Single,
your street in a Range Rover ... "
einem Range Rover runter ..." kannten.
down down the roller coaster,
abwärts auf der Achterbahn,
nie mehr gehen."
urbanen Gemeinschaft aufgewachsen sind,
in any black urban community
helped maintain these songs
diese Lieder beizubehalten
and the gestures that go along with it,
verbundenen Gesten beizubehalten,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
bezeichnete "kinetische Mündlichkeit":
Generation weitergegeben wird.
passed down over generations.
is the thing that helps carry it.
das, was hilft sie weiterzutragen.
to carry memory through.
um die Erinnerung weiterzutragen.
for all different kinds of things.
möglichen Sachen verwendet werden.
because people need to move.
Menschen sich bewegen müssen.
can make the most creative uses.
die einfachsten Objekte,
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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