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Eric Mckenzie<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/|title=The official site of the NBA|website=NBA.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>{{dashboard.wikiedu.org sandbox}}http://www.ricethresher.org/article/2019/03/the-future-of-hip-hop-and-r-b-is-female-heres-who-you-should-be-listening-to |
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"Double Dutch was black girl magic that we had in our communities, something we could call our own" - Gaunt |
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"If Double dutch dies in neighborhoods, that's bad news for black culture" - Gaunt |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-girl-magic-dc-retro-jumpers-remind-dc-how-to-double-dutch/2017/10/18/7ae22176-b364-11e7-add3-da4b781e34b1_story.html?utm_term=.007e3c7c1c3a |
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As a professor, Gaunt teaches ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology. Her mission is to inspire students to become responsible, engaged adults. “I expect students to treat my class like a job. I want 100 percent participation. I want 100 percent attendance. I try to let each and every one of them know that there’s value in them being there,” she says. |
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Gaunt loves to sing, though it has been hard to keep up with on a full time basis. “It was my first dream,” she says. |
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Kyra Gaunt is a woman of many talents: a Baruch college professor, a songwriter, a performer, and an author. A native of Rockville, Maryland, Gaunt began her career in higher education in 1996. She came to Baruch in 2006 after teaching at New York University and the University of Virginia. Her areas of specialty are race, gender, and African American music — topics that she blends together in courses about cultural anthropology and black music. |
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https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/campusstories/facultyspotlight/092809-Gaunt.htm |
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Gaunt earned her Ph.D. in musicology (with a specialization in ethnomusicology) from the prestigious School of Music at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she studied voice with Grammy Award winning tenor George Shirley. She holds additional degrees in voice from SUNY Binghamton and The American University. From meager beginnings--with teenage dreams of being like Chaka Khan or Minnie Riperton and studying classical voice at a community college in her hometown of Rockville, Maryland because that's all music departments used to teach, she is proud to teach from classical music to hip-hop, to be a member of the UAlbany family, and to bring the art of living in Brooklyn, NY to the Capital Region. |
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Her remarkable success in scholarship, performance, and her involvement in social justice activism led the TED (Technology, Education, and Design) community to honor Dr. Gaunt as one of its 40 inaugural TED Fellows in 2009. TED, and its renowned TED Talks and TEDx brand, provides an international platform for world-changers whose ideas are worth spreading. Since then, she appeared as a TEDx Speaker in her former home of New York City and in China and Moldova |
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(My own words- Krya Gaunt is a TED Talk speaker in New York) |
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https://www.albany.edu/music/aboutkgaunt.html |
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“''The Games Black Girls Play'' is an insightful inquiry into a frequently overlooked and influential site of cultural production.” |
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-''Popular Music'' |
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Revision as of 03:30, 4 May 2019
"Double Dutch was black girl magic that we had in our communities, something we could call our own" - Gaunt
"If Double dutch dies in neighborhoods, that's bad news for black culture" - Gaunt
As a professor, Gaunt teaches ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology. Her mission is to inspire students to become responsible, engaged adults. “I expect students to treat my class like a job. I want 100 percent participation. I want 100 percent attendance. I try to let each and every one of them know that there’s value in them being there,” she says.
Gaunt loves to sing, though it has been hard to keep up with on a full time basis. “It was my first dream,” she says.
Kyra Gaunt is a woman of many talents: a Baruch college professor, a songwriter, a performer, and an author. A native of Rockville, Maryland, Gaunt began her career in higher education in 1996. She came to Baruch in 2006 after teaching at New York University and the University of Virginia. Her areas of specialty are race, gender, and African American music — topics that she blends together in courses about cultural anthropology and black music.
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/campusstories/facultyspotlight/092809-Gaunt.htm
Gaunt earned her Ph.D. in musicology (with a specialization in ethnomusicology) from the prestigious School of Music at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she studied voice with Grammy Award winning tenor George Shirley. She holds additional degrees in voice from SUNY Binghamton and The American University. From meager beginnings--with teenage dreams of being like Chaka Khan or Minnie Riperton and studying classical voice at a community college in her hometown of Rockville, Maryland because that's all music departments used to teach, she is proud to teach from classical music to hip-hop, to be a member of the UAlbany family, and to bring the art of living in Brooklyn, NY to the Capital Region.
Her remarkable success in scholarship, performance, and her involvement in social justice activism led the TED (Technology, Education, and Design) community to honor Dr. Gaunt as one of its 40 inaugural TED Fellows in 2009. TED, and its renowned TED Talks and TEDx brand, provides an international platform for world-changers whose ideas are worth spreading. Since then, she appeared as a TEDx Speaker in her former home of New York City and in China and Moldova
(My own words- Krya Gaunt is a TED Talk speaker in New York)
https://www.albany.edu/music/aboutkgaunt.html
“The Games Black Girls Play is an insightful inquiry into a frequently overlooked and influential site of cultural production.”
-Popular Music