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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

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Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art

I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove

The #BLACKBOYJOY of Smino

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Happy Talk (for Nancy Wilson)

Bridget Ramsey’s “Save Your Love for Me” is Assertive Artistry (and a Fitting Tribute to Nancy Wilson)

The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process

Home Archive by category Black Music (Page 11)

C.P.Time #1—Haven’t You Heard of Baby Fingers?

~for Valerie Bridgeman, preacher, scholar, hugger I know I’m a little late with this, but June is Black Music Month, 2012.  I’ll be posting briefly and irregularly about various topics that I’m working out.  I’m going to try to keep it on the analytical side; sometimes it will be just questions...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 5, 2012
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The Power of Suggestion/The Pleasure of Groove: Robert Glasper’s Post-Genre Black Radio Project, Part 3

Part 3–toward inspiration, Salamishah Tillet and Mark Anthony Neal In my previous two posts on the Robert Glasper CD Black Radio (Blue Note) I laid out some broad ways to think about sound organization in the project, the notion of branding in today’s music as well as some ideas about how we can begin...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 11, 2012
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The Power of Suggestion/The Pleasure of Groove: Robert Glasper’s Post-Genre Black Radio Project, Part 2

Part 2 In a recent interview with Nate Chinen, Robert Glasper detailed an aesthetic strategy that would position him to assuage traditionalists’ criticism of his dual pedigree in hip hop and jazz as well as provide him a space to experiment.  Beginning with an impressive set of trio recordings in the tradition...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 6, 2012
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The Power of Suggestion/The Pleasure of Groove: Robert Glasper’s Post-Genre Black Radio Project, Part 1

“Changing the game,” exclaimed the press photographer to one of the fans at Robert Glasper’s recent standing-room-only appearance at World Café Live, Philadelphia.   “Yeah, no doubt,” the middle-aged man shot back in agreement.  The room was filled with an interracial, inter-generational...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 4, 2012
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Steal a Moment for Stolen Moments! Free Download Now

We’re excited to share with you the first single from Dr. Guy’s Musiqology’s The Colored Waiting Room project.  The song “Stolen Moments” evokes the ideas of enticement, desire and fulfillment.  It musically frames those private and pleasurable stolen moments that might grow from innocent...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 20, 2012
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What Are You Waiting For? Colored Waiting Room Single Drops Friday!

It’s here!  This week on Friday, January 20 we will release the first single from the CD The Colored Waiting Room!  This event will be a free download for a limited time only.  Let’s call it Free Follow Friday. The song is an arrangement of Oliver Nelson’s classic piece “Stolen Moments.” ...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 17, 2012
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My LA Times: Pariah, The Front Page and Jason Moran

Landing in JFK and transitioning after a trip to Los Angeles, the land of big dreams and steady paradise, requires a little re-orientation.  A twenty-degree shift in temperature measured both in Fahrenheit and attitude—is always an unkind jolt.  But after a little pushing and shoving at baggage claim,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 19, 2011
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Beats, Rhymes, and Life: Growing Up Tribe

One of the good things about independent films is that they seem to be around at the most convenient times.  I recently found myself on a serious “out on the town” in Philadelphia, a jaunt that coincided with the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists.  The prior week the National...

By Dr. Guthrie /  August 17, 2011
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Index to Black Music Month Writings, 2011

During Black Music Month 2011 I published some thoughts on a range of historical topics spanning a couple of centuries of black music making in the United States. I began with a small June 1 post about trumpeter Roy Hargrove on my Facebook page. That exercise grew into a challenge to share something...

By Dr. Guthrie /  July 1, 2011
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Breeze/Madness/Time: Notes on the Musical Semiotics of Summer

Black Music Month Day #29 Note: This is my final 2011 Black Music Month post.  Tomorrow, I will publish an index to the entire series. I hope you have enjoyed the writing and the music. Happy Summer!–GR Although the official calendar doesn’t agree, for most of us, July is the start of summer....

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 29, 2011
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