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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

The #BLACKBOYJOY of Smino

Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!

Happy Holidays from MusiQology!

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

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The Three Voices of Uzuri, A Gypsy Delight

Live at the Blue Note, NYC October 22, 2012, 8pm Imani Uzuri, vocals Christian Ver Halen, acoustic guitar Amali Premawardhana, cello Todd Isler, world percussion Kaoru Watanabe, Japanese Shinobue flute Special guests: Camilla Celin, sarod Jay Ghandi, bansuri flute Courtney Bryan, piano Although it’s...

By Dr. Guthrie /  October 28, 2012
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Welcome to Club 54: Reflections on Getting It On While Getting On

Lately I’m experiencing a lot of great energy from many directions although sometimes peppered with “processing thoughts” about getting older and becoming a “man of a certain age.”  My 37-year-old nephew commented recently, “Unk, it just seems like you’re having a great time with your...

By Dr. Guthrie /  August 7, 2012
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Cultural Arts Immersion in the Era of Stop and Frisk

This past weekend I spent time with the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Washington DC’s TAP (Teen Arts Performance Camp).  The two-week, overnight program, which is in its fifth year, provided over forty children and teens the opportunity to get exposure to visual arts, dance, music and drama through...

By Dr. Guthrie /  July 15, 2012
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Interstate-57, ML3556, and Drastic Interpretations: Where I’m Coming From

Part I Black Music Month, Day #15 I first discovered the ML3556 section of the library as an undergraduate and grew enamored of the literature about black music, a topic that truly charged me up academically.   Browsing the stacks became a favorite pastime as I read books by LeRoi Jones, Charlie Keil,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 15, 2011
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Tales of the Real Village People: Or How She Became Kellie Jones

Things to See, Hear, and Read in ’11, Part 3 This spring Duke University Press (together with its admirable “editor’s editor,” Ken Wissoker) will release Kellie Jones’ much anticipated collected essays, and folk outside of the close-knit contemporary “fine art” world will...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 23, 2011
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Time to Undress!

A few Sundays ago, I entered The Race Dialogue Project’s new gallery, “Undressing Race.” As a member of the RDP board, I had heard the plans, the ideas, the goals, but I never expected such a powerful effect: the deconstruction of race. On the walls of the multi-media exhibit, the juxtaposition...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 8, 2010
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The Other Glee: Between History and the Future with the Spelman Glee Club

(Dedicated to the lovely seniors of the Spelman Glee Club) Last weekend I visited Atlanta to hear the 84th annual Christmas Concert of the Spelman Glee Club.  Presented in collaboration with Morehouse College, the event is a popular destination for graduates of each school, providing them with one of many...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 6, 2010
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Skin Deep: Africana Studies in Our Time

Editor’s Note:  According to a recently produced “diversity timeline,” the Du Bois College House, a residence hall on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, began “as an experimental living-learning program for African-American students” in 1972. The house was named for William Edward...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 29, 2010
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Does She Still Have It? Thoughts on Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It

This semester I taught Spike Lee’s 1986 breakout film She’s Gotta Have It  as an example of  work that was produced during the age of “The New Black Aesthetic,” a term coined by writer Trey Ellis in 1989. In its moment, the film was critically acclaimed: it was a favorite at Cannes...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 24, 2010
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What is “MusiQology”?

Dr. Guy’s MusiQology Mission Statement The mission of Dr. Guy’s MusiQology is to make musicology accessible to the greater public through combining performance, composition, writings and collaborative projects with the teaching of American musical history and culture of the past and present day....

By Dr. Guthrie /  September 30, 2009
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