Learn · TED

Talk4 min

How the jump rope got its rhythm

Kyra Gaunt · TED

Watch At TED

About

"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.

The talk

  1. How the jump rope got its rhythm 4 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
Small Thing Big Idea
Speaker
Kyra Gaunt
Year
2018
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Art, architecture and design, Music
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
Who can watch
TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed