Ranging Across Time and Scale, V. Shayne Frederick Holds Office Hours at Uncle Bobbie’s
MusiQ Department Artist Vince Anthony Debuts “Hurricane” Music Video
MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
Beyoncé’s Homecoming Film Preserves and Reveres Black History
Why Country Music is So Scared of Black People
DaMaris B. Hill’s New Book is a Powerful, Wondrous Thing
(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café
Hide/Melt/Ghost’s Harlem Debut is a Major Moment for Black Music Scholarship & Performance
The Time Stevie Wonder Taught White Surfers how to Dance
Music Lives with MusiQology Events in Virginia and Philadelphia
The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered
The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview
Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art
I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove
Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!
Happy Holidays from MusiQology!
The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
Yesterday the world lost a brilliant musical architect. New Orleans native, pianist, composer, arranger, and producer Allen Toussaint passed away at the age of 77. Maybe you don’t know his name, but you certainly know his songs. He produced “Lady Marmalade” for LaBelle, wrote “Mother...
Sunday night at midnight D’Angelo released his first album in fourteen years, Black Messiah. This surprise release broke the internet and represents D’Angelo’s triumphant return to the popular music world. We’ll have more thoughts on the album over the coming days, but today...
Next Semester’s Course Descriptions. If you see me walking down the street with a tick, here’s why. Freshmen Seminar That’s My Song!: Musical Genre as Social Contract Music in American history has been fundamental to identity formation because, as one scholar notes, it comprises “the...
A few weeks ago the internet was ablaze with the music video for “Never Catch Me” by Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. The stunningly beautiful, and equally haunting, video, directed by famed Hiro Murai, is a meditation on childhood, death, and resurrection. In his analysis Mark Anthony Neal...
In its review The New York Times says, But “Keep On Keepin’ On” offers something much richer and more unusual than the biography of an eminent musician. Mr. Terry was a pioneer in jazz education, and his first student was a 12-year-old horn player named Quincy Jones, “so skinny he could ride...
The prestigious Harvard Business School is offering a course on the “Business of Being Beyoncé.” If one wants to examine the methods of building global multimedia empire there is no one better to analyze than Queen Bey herself. Now, HBS isn’t the first institution to add the pop star...
On August 9, 2014 Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson. There have been protests, town hall meetings, and autopsies, yet no indictment for the killing of the unarmed teenager. Thankfully, Dr. Birgitta Johnson (@DrBirgittaSays) created a playlist...
Biographies—whether they are represented in books or films—are necessarily selective and reductive. If they weren’t we’d be subjected to 1000-page books or five-hour long movies on a single subject. And even then it would be impossible to capture all the nuance of a life, especially those...
It’s a new day in black music research! One of the reasons I say this is that the field was once anchored in the academy. The scholars who researched the history and present of black music were primarily concerned with sharing the result with an academic audience through traditional channels and platforms. ...
We’re excited about bringing the Colored Waiting Room to the legendary Blue Note Jazz Club this Friday at 11:45pm—the late night groove set. Inviting new musicians into the mix is one of the great things I’ve loved about Dr. Guy’s MusiQology since starting this thing ten years ago. Meet the new MusiQologists...
