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
From MusiQology contributor Martin Connor comes this in-depth look at the lyrics of Kanye West, erstwhile progressive-rapper-turned-Trump-supporter trapped in the Sunken Place. Connor takes a still relatively open, cognitively dissonant question—“Why does Kanye West support Donald Trump?”—and...
Earlier in 2018, we launched Dr. Guy’s MusiQology Podcast, a new wing of the MusiQology project of accessible scholarship and public-reaching impact from our fearless leader Dr. Guy. We hoped that the MusiQology podcast would bring our work into a new medium in a digital age, taking the often-cloistered...
What songs have gotten stuck in your head because you feel like they’re speaking directly to you? Read our article, “After Laughter,” Trauma, and Finding Comfort in an Earworm” and help us construct our collaborative playlist. Earlier this week, we published a hybrid personal essay/observation...
Mhysa is an artist whose work has compelled and challenged us. Their new video — for the track “Bb,” off their successful album, fantasii — is familiar in some ways and satisfyingly, critically, and intentionally unfamiliar in others. Conceptual artist and musician E. Jane’s...
Featuring new voices from academia and beyond, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to provide contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. This week’s writer, making his MusiQology debut reporting live from Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize award ceremony, is Simon Ghebreyesus. ...
Writer Gay Talese set out to interview Frank Sinatra for Esquire in 1965, during a period in the singer’s career that Billboard was calling “the peak of his eminence.” Dogged by media and tired of publicity, Sinatra refused to sit for an interview with Talese at least in part due to another, seemingly...
The Musiqology team congratulates Mark Anthony Neal for being named the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Duke University. A friend and supporter of our work here, Mark is the preeminent scholar of black popular music working today. His work is unsurpassed...
It’s been more than a month since Marvel Studios’ Black Panther took theaters by storm, riding a wave of excitement and discourse built by #BlackTwitter and black Americans’ long-gestating readiness to see themselves represented on screen despite Hollywood’s ill-conceived fears about their global...
Laurin Talese is the first guest of the new MusiQology Podcast hosted by Dr. Guy. Their episode, which launched Monday, April 2, featured the two musicians in conversation around influences, histories, and expertise. The MusiQology Podcast is available at the following podcast platforms: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-musiqology-podcast/id1366597827...
This Thursday, February 22, our fearless leader Dr. Guthrie Ramsey will deliver the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity. The lecture will be held at 5:00PM at the Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and is free to the public. We sat down with Guy to discuss the lecture,...
