Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
Кира Гонт: Как скакалка попала в ритм
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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то звук будет такой:
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
ТИК-тат, ТИК-тат, ТИК-тат.
the Jump Rope]
a clothesline, twine.
бельевая верёвка или шпагат.
is that it has a certain weight,
так это определённый вес
that kind of whip sound.
of the jump rope is.
впервые появилась скакалка.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
появилась в древнем Египте, Финикии,
to North America with Dutch settlers.
привезли её в Северную Америку.
when women's clothes became more fitted
когда женская одежда стала удобнее
wouldn't catch the ropes.
to train their wards to jump rope.
своих воспитанников.
in the antebellum South
на послевоенном Юге
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
Бронксе, Бруклине, Квинсе
lots of girls playing with ropes.
много девочек, прыгающих через скакалки.
and turn them as a single rope together,
и связывали их в одну,
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
нечто вроде венчика для взбивания.
was like a steady timeline --
and rhythms and chants.
зарифмовать или пропеть.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
чем просто соседство.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
остаётся важным символом культуры
basketball and football,
баскетбол и футбол,
that boys weren't a part of that.
so many hip-hop artists
так много хип-хоп музыкантов,
in black girls' game songs.
игровых песенок темнокожих девочек.
act like you know how to flip,
act like you know how to flip,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
became a Grammy Award-winning single
получила премию Грэмми
your street in a Range Rover ... "
your street in a Range Rover ...»
down down the roller coaster,
down down the roller coaster,
in any black urban community
в сообществе темнокожих,
helped maintain these songs
способствовали появлению этих песен
and the gestures that go along with it,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
«кинетической артикуляцией» —
passed down over generations.
is the thing that helps carry it.
своего рода проводник,
to carry memory through.
через который передаётся память.
for all different kinds of things.
because people need to move.
что людям необходимо движение.
can make the most creative uses.
находится самое творческое применение.
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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