Education
Gaunt attended the School of Music at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1988-1997, where she earned a Ph.D. in Musicology with a specialization in ethnomusicology…. She also studied classical voice with operatic tenor George Shirley. She also holds a master's and associate degree in voice from SUNY Binghamton and The American University, respectively.[1]
According to Gaunt, double-dutch was innovated by young
African American girls in urban areas after World War II.[13] In her book, The
Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop, Gaunt
invites readers to "broaden their interpretation of black musical
experience" to include race, gender and body, and the experience of double
dutch can be a path to understanding hip hop culture through a black girl's
perspective .[14] Gaunt wrote that double-dutch was an essential part of black
girl culture in the U.S.: "If double-dutch dies in neighborhoods, that's
bad news for black culture".[13] As the sport became incorporated into
public schools, "casual interest in neighborhoods" saw a decline.[13]"...
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"If you do it right, it should sound like:
TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
If you do it wrong, it sounds like:
Tick-TAT, tick-TAT, tick-TAT.
[Small thing. Big idea.]
The jump rope is such a simple object.
It can be made out of rope, a clothesline, twine.
It has, like, a twirl on it. (Laughs)
I'm not sure how to describe that.
What's important is that it has a certain weight,
and that they have that kind of whip sound.
It's not clear what the origin of the jump rope is.
There's some evidence that it began in ancient Egypt,
Phoenicia, and then it most likely
traveled to North America with Dutch
settlers.
The rope became a big thing when women's clothes became more fitted and the pantaloon came into being.
And so, girls were able to jump rope because their skirts wouldn't catch the ropes.
Governesses used it to train their wards to jump rope. Even formerly enslaved African children in the antebellum South jumped rope, too.
In the 1950s, in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, you could see on the sidewalk, lots of girls
playing with
ropes.
Sometimes they would take two ropes and turn them as a single rope together, but you could separate them and turn them in like an eggbeater on each other.
The skipping rope was like a steady timeline -- tick, tick, tick, tick --
upon which you can add rhymes and rhythms and chants.
Those ropes created a space where we were able to contribute to something that was far greater
than the neighborhood.
Double Dutch jump rope remains a powerful symbol of culture and identity for black women.
Back from the 1950s to the 1970s, girls weren't supposed to play sports.
Boys played baseball, basketball and football, and girls weren't allowed.
A lot has changed, but in that era, girls would rule the playground.
They'd make sure that boys weren't a part of that.
It's their space, it's a girl-power space. It's where they get to shine.
But I also think it's for boys, because boys overheard those, which is why, I think, so many
hip-hop artists sampled from things that they heard in black girls' game
songs.
[...]
Why "Country Grammar" by Nelly became a Grammy
Award-winning single was because people
already knew "We're going down down baby your street in a Range
Rover ... "
That's the beginning of "Down down, baby, down down the
roller coaster, sweet, sweet baby,
I'll never let you go.".
All people who grew up in any black urban community would know that music. And so, it was a
ready-made hit.
The Double Dutch rope playing helped maintain these songs and helped maintain the chants and the gestures that go
along with it."...
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(Numbers have been added for referencing purposes only)
2019
1. @msmorningstar2116
"Growing up our entire street would jump
rope. It was a blast."
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2. @SarahFloria
"This is interesting and makes me love
jump rope so much more. I was never great at it as a child, but that was also
because it was the popular kids that would play jump rope. There were only so
many ropes available to use at recess and the popular kids would hoard them. I
never got the chance to become good at double dutch because I didn't have
people to practice with. But I jumped rope solo all the time."
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3. @vsilligirlbestie3973
"I can't do jump rope 😟😒"
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4. @Blannkss
"As a kid if we couldn’t find or get a
jump rope we had to pull out the cable cords n call it a day. Or make some out
of shoe strings."
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5. @TS-magnolia
"I love Black culture!! Miss my jump
roping days!"
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6. @mrorange90, 2020
"Me too"
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7. @phoebebaker1575
"Overcoming that fear, so you can jump right in"
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8. @DadSkool
"The girls in Australia played elastics, sort of the same way"
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9. @marklewis4793
"..thats popular in SouthAfrica,..panty-'lastic is like
'training wheels'for a skip-rope."
10. @belindaedenfield883
"
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11. @Gr95dc
"I loved jumping rope when I was a kid,
this video brought good memories ❤"
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12. @ujiya922
"It’s interesting to know the history of
the jump rope"
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13. @guitarscholar
"Why do people always assume a thing is
invented in one place and propagated around the world? Very simple things could
be independently thought of in many places."
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14. @tushargupta1999
"Is this the origin of rap music ???"
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15. @rachelle_banks, 2021
"No. But Rhythm has been a constant
throughout Black Culture. Bebop was an off branch of a type of jazz. But well
before that was rhythmic poetry even in Africa.
So everything feeds into everything
else."
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16. @94bhea
"I love this series"
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17. @lucasaaron5195
"I like these. Small things I never think about are so interesting when you dive into there history."
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18. @hanniffydinn6019
"Why only black women ?????"
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19. @debbieomi
"Did you miss the Asain man?"
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2021
20. @rachelle_banks
"I really really like this. I never
learned double dutch but we did jump rope quite a bit as children and all the
fun little rhymes."
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21. @T.image79
" "Down down baby, down down the
rollercoaster, sweet sweet baby I will never let you go." "
No pimp/player can beat them
lyrics kid!!
😁😄😁👊🏿."
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22. @rossiethomas
"That’s was a hand game not a rope game"
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2022
23. @giqwaju3691
"I miss seeing double dutch going on in the
neighborhood. It was still going strong in the early 80's"
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25. @hazelbotedapgonzalez6172
"Looking for the jump rope song “travel t” Chicago area
double Dutch !!!! Help"
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2023
26. @kyraocity
2:37 Down down baby and ends at 3:35
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27. @FemboyHasu
"i don't get why would you made it about
patriarchy."
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2024
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