Question 1

What is The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop about?

Accepted Answer

Traces the embodied musical games of Black girlhood — handclaps, double dutch, cheers — into hip-hop and social dance, which is the actual movement genealogy behind twerking and much of what is taught as 'heels styling'.

Question 2

Is The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop free to read?

Accepted Answer

The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop is in print and available for purchase.

Question 3

Who wrote The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop?

Accepted Answer

The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop was written by Kyra D. Gaunt, published in 2006 by New York University Press.

The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop

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