How does music shape us? Digital ethnomusicologist and TED Fellow Kyra Gaunt studies how Black girls can preserve the integrity of their own voices while listening, dancing and singing to pop songs largely engineered by men, often with lyrics that express anti-Black, patriarchal sentiments. In a quick, incisive talk, she shows how Black girls ca...

"Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster..." Hip-hop owes a lot to the queens of double dutch. Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope.

Through her talk, Gauri conveys her belief that our journey back to square one must be governed by a change in mindset, by rethinking all our decisions as though it were a game, by adopting cutting edge strategic thinking.

Visual Vernacular, is an extra-sign language, an art theorized by the deaf actor Bernard Bragg, and it had a decisive influence on poetry, storytelling and various types of performances of deaf people. It is a visual technique, "visual", and is naturally linked to the deaf culture; the adjective "vernacular" derives from the term "vernacular", a...