How the jump rope got its rhythm

Name: How the jump rope got its rhythm
Uploaded: 2018-03-15T12:50:22Z
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: "Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster..." Hip-hop owes a lot to the queens of double dutch. Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope.

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Small Thing Big Idea

• March 2018

"Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster..." Hip-hop owes a lot to the queens of double dutch. Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope.