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17.3. What Is the Relationship between Art and Power?
In her ethnography The Games Black Girls Play (2006), ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt analyzes the schoolyard songs and games created and performed by young Black girls. Identify which of the following are conclusions she reached and which are not.
Gaunt’s Conclusion
Commercial hip-hop invents songs and vocal patterns, and girls imitate them.
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Girls’ games create kinetic orality.
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The unique movement and rhythm in Black girls’ games is due to genetic sharing across generations.
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Black girls’ games are an important part of enculturation and identity formation for young Black girls.
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Not Gaunt’s Conclusion
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- The unique movement and rhythm in Black girls’ games is due to genetic sharing across generations.