Unlocking Bias in Music
by Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.
The B-word stands for “bias” against black girls and women in music but speaks to interlocking forms of oppression in music and mobile technology. I am Dr. Kyra Gaunt, a digital ethnomusicologist, a prize winning author of a best-selling book, and a professor of music and culture. I conduct hip-hop music studies, Black girlhood studies, and write about hip-hop as music and Black feminist thought. Check out my New York Times article “The Magic of Black Girls Play“ from July 2020.
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When Hip-Hop Robs Female Voice (Beta)
In my 2018 spring hip-hop course students created group podcast episodes for a final project exploring how hip-hop perpetuates misognyoir (anti-black oppression and bias against females). I, the professor, do my own take at unlocking the b-word--the bias from patriarchy and misogynoir--to tell…
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Singing OurSelves Back to our Roots: A message from the CoChairs of the SEM Crossroads Project
The Crossroads Project is a section within the Society for Ethnomusicology. This is our first broadcast and hopefully one of many more. Topic: The Black Lives Matter movement within SEM.
About this show
The B-word stands for “bias” against black girls and women in music but speaks to interlocking forms of oppression in music and mobile technology. I am Dr. Kyra Gaunt, a digital ethnomusicologist, a prize winning author of a best-selling book, and a professor of music and culture. I conduct hip-hop music studies, Black girlhood studies, and write about hip-hop as music and Black feminist thought. Check out my New York Times article “The Magic of Black Girls Play“ from July 2020.
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