The games black girls play: learning the ropes from double-Dutch to hip-hop

List of Musical Figures AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 Slide: Games as Lessons in Black Musical Style 2 Education, Liberation: Learning the Ropes of a Musical Blackness 3 Mary Mack Dressed in Black: The Earliest Formation of a Popular Music 4 Saw You With Your Boyfriend: Music between the Sexes 5 Who's Got Next Game? Women, Hip-Hop, and the Power of Language 6 Double Forces Has Got the Beat: Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch 7 Let a Woman Jump: Dancing with the Double Dutch Divas Conclusion Appendix: Musical Transcriptions of Game-Songs Studied Bibliography Index About the Author