Dept of Music: Lecture | Kyra Gaunt, “Twerking at the Intersection of Music, Sexual Violence, and Patriarchy on YouTube”
Baldy Conference Center (509 O'Brian Hall)Twerking is the art of bouncing your booty to the beats and rhymes of rap or pop songs but it also lives at the intersection of music, monetization, and patriarchal violence. Twerking began to trend in Google Search results in 2011 and peaked when Miley Cyrus and other mega and micro-celebs went viral with their […]