TED Talks Daily How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music | Kyra Gaunt
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Jun 10, 2022 
Kyra Gaunt, a digital ethnomusicologist and TED Fellow, explores how Black girls can reclaim their voices in a male-dominated music industry. She shares her personal journey of learning to embrace her own voice and the cultural expectations young girls face. Gaunt highlights the importance of self-acceptance and empowerment through musical expression. She encourages listeners to disrupt stereotypes and create their own sound, reflecting on how music shapes identity and personal experience.
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Hated Recorded Voice
- Kyra Gaunt hated her recorded voice as a child, preferring to lip-sync.
- This early experience sparked her interest in how sound shapes identity.
Male-Dominated Soundscape
- Black girls create viral dances online, but often to male-created music.
- This exposes them to potentially harmful lyrics and limits their own voices.
Twerking and Music
- Twerking, a culturally rich dance form, is often paired with hypersexualized music.
- This creates a disconnect between the dance's origins and its current context.