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Gaunt, Kyra D. (1995), "African American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-Hop: "Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On)"", Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp.  277–308, doi:10.4135/9781483345383.n13, ISBN   9780803957756
  • "The veneration of James Brown and George Clinton in hip-hop music: Is it live! Or is it re-memory", Popular Music: Style and Identity, pp. 117–122, 1995.
  • "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions", Yearbook for Traditional Music 30:189, January 1998.
  • "Plenty of Good Women Dancers: African American Women Hoofers from Philadelphia", Ethnomusicology 44:2, University of Illinois Press, pp. 359–361, 2000.
  • "Music and the Racial Imagination", Ethnomusicology 48:1, University of Illinois Press, pp. 127–131, 2004.
  • "Girls’ Game-Songs and Hip-Hop: Music Between the Sexes", Parcours anthropologiques 8, CREA, pp. 97–128, 2012.
  • "The Two O'Clock Vibe": Embodying the Jam of Musical Blackness in and out of Its Everyday Context", Musical Quarterly 86:3, Macmillan, pp. 372–397, Autumn 2002.
  • "Got Rhythm?: difficult encounters in theory and practice and other participatory discrepancies in music", City & Society 14:1, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 119–140, 2002.
  • "Roundtable: VH1's (White) Rapper Show: Intrusions, Sightlines, and Authority", Journal of Popular Music Studies 20:1, Blackwell Publishing, pp 44–78, 2008. (with Cheryl L Keyes, Timothy R Mangin, Wayne Marshall, Joe Schloss)
  • "Introduction: APES**T", Journal of Popular Music Studies 30:4, UoC Press Journals, 2018. (With Carol Vernallis, Jason King, Maeve Sterbenz, Gabriel Ellis, Gabrielle Lochard, Daniel Oore, Eric Lyon, Dale Chapman)
  • "The Disclosure, Disconnect, and Digital Sexploitation of Tween Girls' Aspirational YouTube Videos", Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 5:1, UoN Press, pp 91–132, 2018.
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    Kyra Danielle Gaunt
    Kandia Crazy Horse & Kyra Gaunt 01A.jpg
    Crazy Horse and Gaunt on a panel at the 2008 EMP Pop Conf
    NationalityAmerican
    Academic background
    Education SUNY Binghamton
    The American University
    Alma mater University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
    Influences George Shirley [1]

    Judith Becker

    Robin Kelley