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Siyah kızlar müzikte seslerini nasıl geri alabilir?

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Kyra Gaunt |

TED2022

• April 2022

Müzik bizi nasıl şekillendirir? Dijital etnomüzikolog ve TED Üyesi Kyra Gaunt, Siyahi kızların, çoğunlukla Siyah karşıtı, ataerkil duyguları ifade eden sözlerle, büyük ölçüde erkekler tarafından tasarlanan pop şarkılarını dinlerken, dans ederken ve söylerken kendi seslerinin bütünlüğünü nasıl koruyabileceklerini araştırıyor. Hızlı, keskin bir konuşmada, Siyah kızların bu müziğin içinde gömülü olan stereotipleri ve damgaları nasıl bozabileceklerini ve kendi devrimlerini seste nasıl çizebileceklerini gösteriyor.

Müzik bizi nasıl şekillendirir? Dijital etnomüzikolog ve TED Üyesi Kyra Gaunt, Siyahi kızların, çoğunlukla Siyah karşıtı, ataerkil duyguları ifade eden sözlerle, büyük ölçüde erkekler tarafından tasarlanan pop şarkılarını dinlerken, dans ederken ve söylerken kendi seslerinin bütünlüğünü nasıl koruyabileceklerini araştırıyor. Hızlı, keskin bir konuşmada, Siyah kızların bu müziğin içinde gömülü olan stereotipleri ve damgaları nasıl bozabileceklerini ve kendi devrimlerini seste nasıl çizebileceklerini gösteriyor.

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Kyra Gaunt

Ethnomusicologist

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TED Fellow Kyra Gaunt is an ethnomusicologist.

Kyra Gaunt | NYU Press, 2006 | Book

The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-hop

In this book, I traced the relationship between Black girls' musical street play and the emerging hits of male artists that demonstrates a gendered bias toward male dominance in music entertainment and media. I trace a similar pattern in online musical apps in my next book, tentatively titled Played: How Music and Tech Orchestrates Violence Against Black Girls Online.

Karla Hernandez, Stacy L. Smith and Katherine Pieper | Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, 2022 | Article

"Inclusion in the Recording Studio? Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Artists, Songwriters & Producers across 600 Popular Songs from 2012-2021"

While we often overlook how our exposure to musical entertainment hides the patriarchal dominance of men and their musical mansplaining that lives in the recording studio, this 2022 report upends any fallacy about women's equality in the music business. It's time to educate our daughters about the numbers.

Trevor Boffone | Oxford University Press, 2021 | Book

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok

Plenty of books focus on young people's fixation on phones, cultural appropriation of Blackness or hip-hop as music and pedagogy. Renegades tackles all that with a "Woah!" tagged on. Boffone confronts whiteness, anti-Black sexism and even COVID-19 with his insights about digital dance trends.

Monique W. Morris | The New Press, 2022 | Book

Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls

Morris gave a TED Talk in 2018 and later published this book. It reimagines what education might look like if schools (and institutions like music and tech) placed the thriving of Black and Brown girls at the center of communities that nurture girls' agency, particularly around their voice.

Naomi Wolf | TEDxSBU, 2015 | Watch

"Sexual violence and female silence: how rape suppresses voice"

A third of women have been assaulted or violated sexually by a trusted male by the time they are 18. Women are underrepresented in every sector (including music and tech) that require a willingness to speak in strong declarative sentences, assert their opinions clearly, step into the limelight and engage in verbal conflict resolution. How do these facts correlate? This TEDx Talk help us understand how women's relative reluctance to be "out front" often stems from past violence.

Stacey Patton | Beacon Press, 2017 | Book

Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

The chapter "Don't Be a Fast Girl: How Hitting Your Daughter Can Trigger Early Puberty" is a lesson in the slow violence done to Black girls who are disciplined for online musical play that sits at the intersection of misogyny in hip-hop and among audiences of online twerking. Parents and teachers interested in protecting Black girls from the emotional and psychological abuse they encounter online will be moved by the research and writing in this book.

Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein | The MIT Press, 2020 | Book

Data Feminism

While my talk is as much about music and the mobile media dating back to cassette players in girls' bedroom play, the other entity online is the interface that signals search results, recommendations and view counts offering a feminist reading of the consequences of big data. (Data Feminism is a must-read for interpreting the biases that accompany the numbers behind apps and the monetization of creators' content on YouTube and TikTok.

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Donate to the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls to increase access to the arts for historically underrepresented young people; the majority of the campers are BIPOC. Give a girl the right to rock her voice at an early age.

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