Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
Kyra Gaunt: Atlama ipi ritmini nasıl kazandı
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]
Atlama İpi üzerine]
çamaşır ipinden ve hasırdan da.
a clothesline, twine.
is that it has a certain weight,
belli bir ağırlığı olur
that kind of whip sound.
of the jump rope is.
çok net değil.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
başladığına dair bazı bulgular var.
to North America with Dutch settlers.
tarafından Kuzey Amerika'ya geldi.
when women's clothes became more fitted
ve pantolon giyilmeye başlayınca
wouldn't catch the ropes.
to train their wards to jump rope.
onlara ip atlatıyordu.
in the antebellum South
köle Afrikalı çocuklar bile
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens'de
lots of girls playing with ropes.
ip atlama oynadığını görürdünüz.
and turn them as a single rope together,
ikisini birden dönderirlerdi
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
çırpıcısı gibi dönderebilirsiniz.
was like a steady timeline --
dengeli bir zamanlama gibi --
and rhythms and chants.
ekleyebiliyorsunuz.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
hâlâ çok güçlü bir kültür
basketball and football,
ve futbol oynuyorlardı
that boys weren't a part of that.
olmamasını sağlarlardı.
so many hip-hop artists
pek çok hip-hopçu
in black girls' game songs.
esinlendiler.
act like you know how to flip,
atlamayı bildiğini göster,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
buz gibi titre,
became a Grammy Award-winning single
bu yüzden Grammy ödülü aldı,
your street in a Range Rover ... "
gidiyoruz güzelim...''
down down the roller coaster,
hız treninden aşağı,
in any black urban community
büyüyen herkes
helped maintain these songs
bu şarkıların korunmasına yardım etti
and the gestures that go along with it,
tazahürat ve jestleri de korudu,
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
şey için çok doğal --
passed down over generations.
is the thing that helps carry it.
bazı şekillerde yardım ediyor.
to carry memory through.
bir nesneye ihtiyacınız var.
for all different kinds of things.
birçok farklı şey için kullanabilirsiniz.
because people need to move.
günümüze kadar geldi.
can make the most creative uses.
en yaratıcı kullanımlara yön veriyor.
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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