12-Day 1-Kyra Gaunt-v3 (1)

Kyra Gaunt speaks at the 2018 Gender & Work Symposium: Race, Work and Leadership: Learning about and from Black experience Kyra Gaunt, ethnomusicologist and Assistant Professor at University at Albany, SUNY, presents "Black Can Be Me: Voicing the Musical Blackness through Song, Scholarship, and Social Media" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium. Kyra Gaunt's book The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop published by NYU Press won of the 2007 Alan Merriam Book Prize awarded by The Society for Ethnomusicology, which contributed to the emergence of black girlhood studies and hip-hop feminism. It also inspired a work by fellow TED Fellow Camille A. Brown, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play by Camille A Brown and Dancers, nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production.