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
To watch V. Shayne Frederick—who stars in the recently released debut of Dr. Guy’s Office Hours video series and has his own new album, Lovesome, out now—perform feels like observing one of the old, early-twentieth-century masters’ energies and vocal stylings transposed into a contemporary form....
One of our most treasured MusiQology collaborators is poet and performance artist Ursula Rucker, who most recently lent her voice to MusiQ Department artist Bridget Ramsey’s “Save Your Love For Me” single and video. Ursula sat down with MusiQology contributor and Penn undergraduate Izzy Lopez to talk...
We’re still reeling in the MusiQology orbit over the premature passing of trumpeter and boundary-crosser Roy Hargrove. MusiQology band member and director of the Penn Music Department’s jazz combos Matthew Clayton combines an analysis of Hargrove’s impact with personal remembrances as a fellow...
Recently, we told you about a set of new and exciting releases from our imprint, The MusiQ Department, from our artists Vince Anthony and Bridget Ramsey. We’re tremendously honored to highlight another release from Bridget Ramsey, the warm, dynamic, Philly-centered music video for her interpretation...
We’re so proud to announce a spate of new releases from our imprint, The MusiQ Department. The first is an EP titled Jazz Nonstandards by Bridget Ramsey, which offers new and exciting twists on the jazz repertoire. The second is a layered and thoughtful single by Vince Anthony titled “Hurricane.”...
To make jazz in at the turn of the century was and is a weighing—of genealogical tradition and new-school vitality; of fealty to the elders and a desire to have one’s voice heard; between the conservatory and the club. Roy Hargrove, who passed away over the weekend at the too-young age of 49, was a […]
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...
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...
J. Michael Harrison is this week’s guest on The MusiQology Podcast, taking Dr. Guy and the listener through the city’s musical history, touching on activism and the centrality of musical cultures to Philadelphia life. We asked him to give our readers an overview of Philly jazz’s past, present,...
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African-American Music Thursday, February 22, 2018, 5:00 pm Reception to Follow Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street Free & Open to the Public This lecture...
