TED-Ed How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music

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From: TED Talks Daily - Monday Jun 13, 2022 12:03 pm
How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music
How does music shape us?

TODAY'S TED TALK

How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music

6:57 minutes · TED2022

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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