Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Influential U
Episode: More Valuable Than My PhD with Kyra Gaunt
Description: This episode, we welcome Dr. Kyra Gaunt to the Influential U Podcast.Dr. Gaunt has been an innovator in the field of ethnomusicology for over twenty years. Ethnomusicology is a discipline that examines how culture shapes musical people versus how musical people like celebrities shape culture. Dr. Gaunt specializes in black girlhood, musical blackness, and digital media studies. Her latest research examines how online music and tech platforms groom girls for patriarchal violence, particularly in girls’ intimate bedroom musical plays from YouTube to TikTok.Her other accomplishments include being a...