Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
Kyra Gaunt: De unde vine ritmul corzii pentru sărit?
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.
TIC-tat, TIC-tat, TIC-tat.
the Jump Rope]
Coarda pentru sărit]
atât de simplu.
frânghie pentru rufe, sfoară.
a clothesline, twine.
cum să descriu asta.
is that it has a certain weight,
că are o anume greutate
that kind of whip sound.
ca un fel de bici.
of the jump rope is.
este neclară.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
că a apărut în Egiptul antic, Fenicia,
to North America with Dutch settlers.
adusă de coloniștii olandezi.
when women's clothes became more fitted
hainele femeilor au devenit mai strâmte
wouldn't catch the ropes.
de corzile pt. sărit.
to train their wards to jump rope.
să sară coarda.
in the antebellum South
în perioada de dinainte de război
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
Brooklyn și Queens,
lots of girls playing with ropes.
o mulțime de fete jucându-se cu coarda.
and turn them as a single rope together,
și le îmbinau într-o singură coardă,
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
învârtindu-le precum paletele unui mixer.
was like a steady timeline --
era ca și un exercițiu de echilibru
and rhythms and chants.
rime, ritmuri și cântece.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
rămâne un simbol puternic
basketball and football,
baschet și fotbal,
that boys weren't a part of that.
că băieții nu făceau parte din asta.
un spațiu dominat de fete
so many hip-hop artists
atâția artiști hip-hop
in black girls' game songs.
din ce au auzit din cântecele fetelor.
act like you know how to flip,
fă ca și cum ai ști să sari,
prăjiți, shake gros și rece,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
became a Grammy Award-winning single
a câștigat premiul Grammy
your street in a Range Rover ... "
baby, într-un Range Rover ...”
down down the roller coaster,
,,În jos, în jos, pe carusel,
să pleci.”
in any black urban community
a oamenilor de culoare
helped maintain these songs
a ajutat la păstrarea acestor melodii,
and the gestures that go along with it,
asociate acestuia,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
eu numesc transmitere pe cale orală -
passed down over generations.
de la o generație la alta.
is the thing that helps carry it.
care ajută la perpetuarea culturii.
to carry memory through.
care perpetueze memoria.
for all different kinds of things.
pentru tot felul de lucruri.
because people need to move.
deoarece oamenii au nevoie de mișcare.
can make the most creative uses.
sunt cele mai creative.
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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