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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.21,0:00:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you do it right, it should sound like:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.69,0:00:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat,\NTICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.59,0:00:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you do it wrong, it sounds like:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.32,0:00:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tick-TAT, tick-TAT, tick-TAT.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.85,0:00:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Small thing. Big idea.]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.57,0:00:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Kyra Gaunt on\Nthe Jump Rope]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.32,0:00:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The jump rope is such a simple object.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.92,0:00:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be made out of rope,\Na clothesline, twine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.54,0:00:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has, like, a twirl on it. (Laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.09,0:00:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not sure how to describe that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.89,0:00:29.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's important\Nis that it has a certain weight,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.42,0:00:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that they have\Nthat kind of whip sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.82,0:00:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not clear what the origin\Nof the jump rope is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.64,0:00:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some evidence\Nthat it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.60,0:00:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it most likely traveled\Nto North America with Dutch settlers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.70,0:00:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rope became a big thing\Nwhen women's clothes became more fitted
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.36,0:00:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the pantaloon came into being.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.66,0:00:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, girls were able to jump rope
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.56,0:00:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because their skirts\Nwouldn't catch the ropes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.29,0:01:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Governesses used it\Nto train their wards to jump rope.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.20,0:01:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even formerly enslaved African children\Nin the antebellum South
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.46,0:01:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jumped rope, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.93,0:01:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1950s, in Harlem,\NBronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.56,0:01:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could see on the sidewalk,\Nlots of girls playing with ropes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.06,0:01:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they would take two ropes\Nand turn them as a single rope together,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.81,0:01:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you could separate them and turn\Nthem in like an eggbeater on each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.62,0:01:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The skipping rope\Nwas like a steady timeline --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.16,0:01:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tick, tick, tick, tick --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.70,0:01:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon which you can add rhymes\Nand rhythms and chants.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.78,0:01:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those ropes created a space
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.86,0:01:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we were able\Nto contribute to something
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.10,0:01:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was far greater\Nthan the neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.60,0:01:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Double Dutch jump rope remains\Na powerful symbol of culture and identity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.31,0:01:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for black women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.49,0:01:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back from the 1950s to the 1970s,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.83,0:01:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girls weren't supposed to play sports.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.99,0:01:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boys played baseball,\Nbasketball and football,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.82,0:01:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and girls weren't allowed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.18,0:01:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot has changed, but in that era,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.73,0:01:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girls would rule the playground.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.59,0:01:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'd make sure\Nthat boys weren't a part of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.04,0:02:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's their space, it's a girl-power space.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.31,0:02:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's where they get to shine.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.43,0:02:03.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I also think it's for boys,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.01,0:02:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because boys overheard those,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.51,0:02:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is why, I think,\Nso many hip-hop artists
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.98,0:02:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sampled from things that they heard\Nin black girls' game songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.30,0:02:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Chanting) ... cold, thick shake,\Nact like you know how to flip,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.40,0:02:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder,\Nfrench fries, ice cold, thick shake,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.43,0:02:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,act like you know how to jump.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.90,0:02:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why "Country Grammar" by Nelly\Nbecame a Grammy Award-winning single
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.95,0:02:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was because people already knew
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.33,0:02:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're going down down baby\Nyour street in a Range Rover ... "
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.83,0:02:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the beginning of "Down down, baby,\Ndown down the roller coaster,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.27,0:02:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweet, sweet baby, I'll never let you go."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.72,0:02:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All people who grew up\Nin any black urban community
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.59,0:02:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would know that music.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.90,0:02:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it was a ready-made hit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.66,0:02:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Double Dutch rope playing\Nhelped maintain these songs
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.80,0:02:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helped maintain the chants\Nand the gestures that go along with it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.82,0:02:54.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is very natural\Nto what I call "kinetic orality" --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.86,0:02:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,word of mouth and word of body.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.13,0:03:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the thing that gets\Npassed down over generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.03,0:03:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some ways, the rope\Nis the thing that helps carry it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.70,0:03:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need some object\Nto carry memory through.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.94,0:03:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a jump rope, you can use it\Nfor all different kinds of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.91,0:03:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It crosses cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.49,0:03:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it lasted\Nbecause people need to move.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.52,0:03:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think sometimes the simplest objects\Ncan make the most creative uses.