Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
Kyra Gaunt: Hur hopprepet fick sin rytm
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.
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
the Jump Rope]
a clothesline, twine.
klädlina, snöre.
is that it has a certain weight,
att det har en viss vikt,
that kind of whip sound.
of the jump rope is.
hopprepets ursprung är.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
att det började i forna Egypten, Fenicien
to North America with Dutch settlers.
Nordamerika via holländska nybyggare.
when women's clothes became more fitted
när kvinnors kläder blev mer lämpliga
wouldn't catch the ropes.
inte fastnade i repet.
to train their wards to jump rope.
för att lära sina elever.
in the antebellum South
i södern före inbördeskriget
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens
lots of girls playing with ropes.
som lekte med rep på trottoarerna.
and turn them as a single rope together,
och veva dem som ett rep tillsammans
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
dem som en visp mot varandra.
was like a steady timeline --
and rhythms and chants.
och rytmer och ramsor.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
än vårt bostadsområde.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
symbol av kultur och identitet
basketball and football,
basket och amerikansk fotboll,
that boys weren't a part of that.
inte var en del av det.
so many hip-hop artists
att många hip-hop artister
in black girls' game songs.
i svarta tjejers ramsor.
act like you know how to flip,
visa att du kan vända
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
pommes, iskall, tjock, milkshake
became a Grammy Award-winning single
blev en Grammisbelönad singel
your street in a Range Rover ... "
down down the roller coaster,
down down the roller coaster,
in any black urban community
ett bostadsområde med svarta
helped maintain these songs
till att upprätthålla dessa sånger
and the gestures that go along with it,
och rörelserna som hörde till dem,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
för vad jag kallar "kinetisk oralitet"
passed down over generations.
av varje generation.
is the thing that helps carry it.
som hjälper att bära det.
to carry memory through.
som bär minnet med sig.
for all different kinds of things.
för många olika saker.
because people need to move.
för att folk behöver röra på sig.
can make the most creative uses.
generera de mest kreativa användningar.
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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