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Kyra Gaunt (University at Albany State University of New York, NY)
Gaunt’s scholarship has broken musicological ground and shaped the emergence of hip-hop music studies, black girlhood studies, and hip-hop feminism. Across diverse platforms within and beyond academia, Gaunt’s insights from black feminist scholarship and #BLM campaigning generate expertise, modelling how to ask for more, include more, and understand more about contemporary musical forms and their power in daily life.
Biography: Professor Kyra Gaunt uses song, scholarship, and digital media to disclose disconnects in music, culture, and technology that perpetuate gender-based violence against girls online. Her prize-winning book, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop (NYU Press) and subsequent publications, contributed to the emergence of hip-hop music studies, black girlhood studies, and hip-hop feminism. She was featured in the viral TED video “How the Jump Rope Got Its Rhythm ” reaching over 7M+ views published in over 28 languages and in 2020 she became a Senior TED Fellow. Her article “The Magic of Black Girls Play” was an editors’ pick in the New York Times in July 2020 and her next project is titled PLAYED: How Music Orchestrates Violence Against Black Girls Online.
Respondents: Kyung Myun Lee, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); Maiko Kawabata, Royal College of Music and Open University, UK.
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