Kyra D. Gaunt, Ph.D.
Bio
Prize-winning author. Performing Artist. Professor.
Kyra Gaunt has been a cutting-edge scholar in the field of embodied ethnomusicology for over 20 years. Her book The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop (NYU Press), funded by NEH and the Ford Foundation, which won the 2007 Alan Merriam Prize for most outstanding monograph from The Society of Ethnomusicology, along with her subsequent publications contributed to the emergence of hip-hop music studies, black girlhood studies, and hip-hop feminism. Her current research explores the intersections of music, tech, and violence against girls in case studies of tween twerking on YouTube.
Education
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ph.D. Musicology 1997. #goblue
State University of New York-Binghamton, M.M. Voice, 1988
The American University, Washington, D.C., B.A. Voice, 1984
Montgomery Community College, Rockville, MD., A.A. Voice, 1981
Employment
2017 - present University at Albany, SUNY
2011 - 2017 Baruch College, CUNY
2016 - 2017 Hunter College, CUNY
2002 - 2006 New York University
1996 - 2002 University of Virginia