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(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café
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The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered
The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview
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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
There are a few sounds in the world that just bring me emotional pleasure. The sound of my mother’s voice. A baby’s laugh. Roberta Flack’s first two LPs. John Coltrane’s tenor. Those always seem to do the right thing for me. Yet, there is one sound that produces feelings I struggle to put into...
Free your mind…and your ass will follow. Such was the guarantee, chanted mystically on Funkadelic’s 1970 LP of the same name. Forty-plus years of records and antics from George Clinton (aka Dr. Funkenstein) later, seeing the Parliament-Funkadelic collective in concert is still an embodied,...
16 Bars is a recurring column at MusiQology. When we want to get a sense of the discourse around a particular pop culture moment or event, we search the web, highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse. A sign of a rapper’s ability is his or […]
This week, Dr. Guy will be presenting two lectures as the scholar-in-residence at Baylor University. These events are free and open to the public. Monday, September 26 (6PM CENTRAL), Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church: “Y’all Like That?: Contemporary Gospel Music and the Sacred-Secular...
Two weeks ago, Dr. Guy decamped for South Africa to deliver a keynote lecture at the annual congress of the South African Society for Research in Music. Titled “Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African American Music Culture,” the paper discussed how cultural memory, artistic...
Late last month, one of the mid-twentieth century’s greatest sidemen departed planet earth at its unfunkiest. His name was Bernie Worrell, the mad scientist behind the keyboards who piloted the Parliament-Funkadelic Afrofuturist mothership. He leaves behind an incredibly diverse sonic legacy. ...
MusiQology is a family business, and it’s our great pleasure to announce the debut of Bridget Ramsey’s EP, B-Eclectic for online sale HERE. After more than a year behind the boards and at the studio keys, Dr. Guy has shepherded his daughter through a debut release that stretches genre boundaries...
Visual Goods is a New Feature on MusiQology where we will explore the relationship between photography and live music through the lenses of various photojournalists and artists. We hope to bring readers into live music venues, rehearsal and performance spaces, and other soundscapes to celebrate and explore the...
“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it,” James Baldwin once wrote. What does it mean to “really hear it” and why is it experienced so differently from listener to listener? When is a love song happy for some and bittersweet for others? When is a hip-hop song politically...
There is an old saying taken as fact among many people of color in this nation. President Obama reminded Morehouse College’s 2013 graduating class about it. Books about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have used it as a way to explain her success. It was even said on Scandal. The saying usually...
