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1 Eeny Meeny Dessameeny: Continuity and Change in the Backstory of a Children s Playground Rhyme Julia C. Bishop Paper presented at Children's Playground Games and Songs in the New Media Age: Interim Conference, 25th February 2010, London Knowledge Lab, London Introduction Handclapping games are a very conspicuous genre of children s play. If you re an adult looking for children s games in the hubbub of primary school playgrounds at playtime and dinner time, the eye and, when near enough, the ear are readily drawn to these performances. They are generally done on the spot, have a well-defined beginning and end, and emphasise rhythm and coordination.
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How to download xlstat. This is not to suggest that the children playing these games are doing them for an audience other than themselves. 1 Nonetheless, the performativity of these games, with their physical and verbal challenges, appears to be their main attraction and holds the key to their capacity to temporarily alleviate boredom. Although we are still in the process of cataloguing the audio and video recordings undertaken at Monteney Primary School in Sheffield, it is clear that handclapping is a regular activity in the Key Stage 2 yard or playground. It is mainly done by girls although boys may look on or attempt to disrupt the game by distracting the girls, or sometimes may try and join in. An in-depth study of handclapping at the school will form the focus of the next phase of our fieldwork, but for this paper I would like to focus on just one clapping game and text, which I will call Eeny Meeny Dessameeny.