Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
by
Kyra D. Gaunt
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology
2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes....