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How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music | Kyra Gaunt

How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music | Kyra Gaunt

How does music shape us?

TED Talks Daily · TED

June 10, 20227m 26s

Show Notes

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.

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