WGSS affiliated Faculty Member, Dr. Kyra Gaunt, Featured in Ted Talk
Assistant Professor of Music and WGSS affiliated faculty member Dr. Kyra Gaunt presented her talk, How Black Girls Can Reclaim their Voice in Music, at an official TED conference.
About the talk
How does music shape us? Digital ethnomusicologist and TED Fellow Kyra Gaunt studies how Black girls can preserve the integrity of their own voices while listening, dancing and singing to pop songs largely engineered by men, often with lyrics that express anti-Black, patriarchal sentiments. In a quick, incisive talk, she shows how Black girls can disrupt the stereotypes and stigmas buried within this music and chart their own revolution in sound.