# Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm

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

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2018
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, History, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/KyraGaunt_2018V)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/KyraGaunt_2018V?play=1)