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TED Speaker & Senior TED Fellow
Prize-winning author
Associate Professor
Embodied ethnomusicologist
Abolition feminist
Expert witness: social media
Kyra D. Gaunt Ph.D.
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.
Media
Appearances
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Aja' Wilson's on Top Nike Ad, 2025; MSNow opinion piece here.
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TED Talk: How Black Girls Can Reclaim Their Voice in Music, 2023
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TED's Small Thing, Big Idea, Ep. 2: "How the Jump Rope Got its Rhythm," 2018
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Interview by Paul Grondahl at the New York State Writers Institute, 2020
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SEM Conversations in Ethnomusicology, 2019
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Black Girl YouTube Project Student Love Letter.
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TEDx East Talk: (Re)Stigmatizing Black Girls for Clickbait, 2016
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YouTube Vlog: History of the Supercut and Feminist Vidding, 2018
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YouTube Research Note: "Make it Rain? Watching Black Girls Twerk," 2014
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Historical Snapshot on YouTube Twerking, 2015
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Writing for Public
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