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

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hey, it's Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.7	Singing, listening to music and dancing, they're universal.
0:10.9	They're universal experiences among all of us, especially when we're growing up.
0:15.2	How does that all shape us?
0:16.9	In her talk from Ted 2022, Ethno Musicologist and Ted Fellow Kira Gaunt challenges us to
0:22.9	think deeper about the music so many young women and girls enjoy by considering the people
0:28.4	and the mindsets behind the making of it.
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