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Kyra D. Gaunt Ph.D.
Digital ethnomusicologist
Prize-winning author
Expert social media witness
Senior TED Fellow (2020-2021)
Voicing the unspoken through
song, scholarship, and social media.
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Prize-Winning Book
Awarded the 2007 Alan P. Merriam Prize for the most outstanding English-speaking monograph by the Society for Ethnomusicology.
$27.00 on Amazon.
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