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
Set within the milieu of the HBCU experience, Knowles’s latest masterwork captures the complexity of contemporary blackness through film, a medium that has always crystallized black representational possibility for better or worse. About halfway through Homecoming, Beyoncé Knowles’s triumphant new Netflix...
One of the most unfettered and important musical spaces in the sound schedule of every artist is the jam session, where production and planning are eschewed in favor of spontaneity and organic creation in the moment. This Thursday, March 14, Dr. Guy and frequent collaborator Ursula Rucker will offer...
With the dust settled and the hot takes cooled, we wanted to reflect on the surprising results of the 2019 GRAMMY Awards, which upset some longstanding patterns and pathways and doubled down on others. From the moment surprise guest Michelle Obama took the stage with hostess Alicia Keys, Jada Pinkett...
The GRAMMYs, music’s self-declared “greatest night” will return to TV screens this weekend, airing Sunday on CBS at 8PM. MusiQology managing editor John Vilanova, who’s been hard at work on a PhD dissertation that examines the awards’ record on race throughout their sixty-year history,...
MusiQology’s Shakira King reflects on the deep roots of optimism that set Smino’s trap apart. “Smino’s music is anti-first impressions,” my friend and culture commentator Tirhakah Love said in a recent tweet. It’s trap music, but not like the kind that has taken over the radio and the culture...
In January of this year, Nielsen announced that, for the first time, R&B/hip-hop had become the most-consumed genre of music among U.S. consumers, evidence to back up what the radio, the club, and the blogosphere had been telling us for quite some time: Hip-hop was not outsider music on the music...
Taking a moment to discuss figures and texts in art and culture for which we’re thankful has become a welcome tradition here at MusiQology, and we’re thrilled to present the 2018 edition of “MusiQology Gives Thanks.” The last two years when we sat down to write about what we were thankful for,...
From Izzy Lopez, a Penn undergraduate student, comes this new and thoughtful look at Cardi B, the woman who has taken over the music industry and popular culture zeitgeist in tandem. Lopez asks why media narratives of Cardi’s rise wind up feeling so formulaic–arguing that a broader discomfort...
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 this week, our new imprint, The MusiQ Department, debuted their initial release, a Bridget Ramsey-fronted cover of the jazz standard “The Very Thought of You” that challenges the songbook staple and pushes it in new directions. Produced at Philly’s Turtle Studios by Vince Anthony, Guthrie...
