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
What’s most important to know is that Azealia Banks (@AZEALIABANKS) is a talented artist bars no punches when it comes to speaking her truth. Her truth is one that emanates from being 23 year old Black woman raised in Washington Heights, New York City. She was raised on avant garde jazz, R&B...
For David Leonard When the word spread that ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott had passed away at 49 this weekend, tributes flooded the airwaves and social media. Writer Michael Wilbon tweeted that he’d “changed the way we talked about sports, and in doing so put himself on ESPN’s Mount Rushmore.”...
In this episode two Musiqology Young Gunz, Regina Bradley, Ph.D. (@redclayscholar) and Birgitta Johnson, Ph.D. (@DrBirgittaSays) unite discuss Outkast and notions of Southern identity. This is a definite must watch!
A few weeks ago the internet was ablaze with the music video for “Never Catch Me” by Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. The stunningly beautiful, and equally haunting, video, directed by famed Hiro Murai, is a meditation on childhood, death, and resurrection. In his analysis Mark Anthony Neal...
The other day I participated in a conversation on HuffPost Live with actor Gbenga Akinnagbe and attorney Ale Fernandez about “Stop and Frisk” and racial profiling practices. I joked on Facebook that I’d be talking about something I don’t study. I was reminded, however, that, I had experienced...
During the next few weeks I’ll be posting about the course I’m teaching on African American music. Designed as a survey, it will trace developments from slavery to the present for a mix of music majors and non-majors. The course begins with some philosophical issues about black music making in the United...
I was in the media room of the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina where I’ve been an artist-in-resident for the last month, when a small opportunity was presented, one with powerful import. As I shared my experiences with the D.C. Boys and Girls Club Arts Camp from the previous...
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...
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...
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...
