Many people don't know Double Dutch was an integral part of hip-hop culture and history, says ethnomusicologist Kyra D. Gaunt.
Dutch settlers may have brought Double Dutch to America, but it was Black girls who put it on the map, says Lauren Walker, president of the."Double Dutch is Black girl magic. It came from a union of young girls in their community getting together to socialize, and to engage in each other's dreams and ambitions."
They also put their own spins on popular rhyming songs, like"Miss Mary Mack," and brought them into the ropes, says ethnomusicologist."You learned from your elder siblings, you learned from your same-age peer age group, in schools, hanging out on the stoop, on the sidewalk." Then in 1973 two New York City policemen, Ulysses Williams and Lauren Walker's father David A. Walker, established Double Dutch as a team sport and got it into schools. When the first tournament was held a year later, nearly 600 kids participated. Many more were inspired.
Adrienne"Nikki" Adams Howell, Delores Brown Finlayson, De'Shone Adams Goodson, and Robin Oakes Watterson met as junior high schoolers on the Lower East Side in 1978. Howell says they meshed immediately."Everyone had their own creative ideas and everyone had their own different strengths, you know, everything came together for us."
Calling themselves"The Added Touch,'' the team placed second in the singles division and third in doubles at the 1978 World Wide Double Dutch championship. Then they took it higher, says Watterson."I would like to say we reinvented ourselves.
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