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
Despite the woes that have kept the great city of Detroit in the news lately, Detroit continues to remind the world that since the post-War II era, it has been a major source of musical inspiration and artistic stability. Gospel music has been an especially fertile style for this “Up-South” city. ...
A lot has been said about Steve McQueen’s poignantly painful film, 12 Years a Slave. And rightfully so. Amid a class of films–such as Django and The Butler– that discuss slavery (or the legacy of it) 12 Years a Slave is an emotionally jarring look at one man’s tragic journey...
Last week Team Musiqology made our way down Interstate 95 to Jatworld, the recording studio of musician and producer Jerry Thompson and located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Although the crew is New York based, it’s important to us keep our Philly roots strong because it is, after all, where the idea...
When you least expect it. I think the singer Imani Uzuri had posted something on Facebook about work songs from the African American tradition on her timeline. I must have “liked” it or wisecracked something. The next think I knew, she was calling and started singing a work song in that glorious...
Lecture 2: Exceptional Errors Something was terribly wrong among the black Methodists in the early 19th century. In 1819, John F. Watson, a disapproving minister, published a diatribe called Methodist Error: Or Friendly Christian Advice to those Methodists Who Indulge in Extravagant Emotions and Bodily...
I’ll admit it. Saying goodbye to summer’s reprieve is always a shock to the system, but as a hopeless academic, the fall has always been a great time of year. It means a new academic startup, meeting new students, new materials to learn and teach, and, always, always a fresh outlook on familiar...
The legendary, and hugely influential, George Duke passed away this week. While it is hard to put his multi-faceted 40 year career into words, we are grateful that Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) gave Musiqology Editor in Chief, Guthrie Ramsey, the space to process Duke’s influence on Dr. Guy’s...
For cultural adventurers like us, summer is when routine pressures relax a bit, and we find time to pull it in–catch up with reading, summer concerts, new recordings and with one another. During a recent conversation with Musiqology’s managing editor, Dr. Fredara Hadley (our favorite resident...
The release of Justin Timberlake’s latest CD The 20/20 Experience last week met fanfare, market analysis, and some unusually frank talk about singing, dancing, raced bodies. Timberlake’s musical successes have made him, in the eyes of his vast following, either the crown prince of pop or a rip off artist,...
The other day I participated in a conversation on HuffPost Live with actor Gbenga Akinnagbe and attorney Ale Fernandez about “Stop and Frisk” and racial profiling practices. I joked on Facebook that I’d be talking about something I don’t study. I was reminded, however, that, I had experienced...
