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Granoff Colloquium: Kyra Gaunt – Uttered Silence

Monday, February 6, 2023 @ 12:00 pm

Free

The new semester’s first Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features SUNY-Albany assistant professor and ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt on the topic, “Uttered Silence: A Black Feminist Ethnomusicology as Care and Repair.” Gaunt will speak on anti-Blackness and the particular f*ckery Black girls face online and in real life around twerking and voice. She is a digital ethnomusicologist known for her work on kinetic orality and the gendered twist of music-making from girls to men in Black popular music since the 1920s. Her latest research explores music as a game and an agent of violence against girls on the musical internet, particularly young Black girls, from YouTube to TikTok.

In this presentation, Dr. Gaunt discusses the weathering effects of musical misogynoir on the sexual and reproductive health of girls online. If sexism causes harm to Black women, why not repeated exposure to the sexism and anti-Black misogyny of certain styles of hip-hop and club music. Everyone but the Black girl profits from her dance online.

This ​colloquium is part​ of ​Kinetic Orality, Ethnography, and Ethics: Towards a Black Feminist Ethnomusicology and is supported by the Diversity Fund​, ​the Anthropology Department​, ​the Department of Studies in Race Colonialism and Diaspora​, ​the International Relations Program​, ​the Civic Studies Program​, and the Granoff Music Fund.

 

 

Details

Date:
Monday, February 6, 2023
Time:
12:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3982370125322075

Venue

Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave.
Medford, MA 02155 United States
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