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
LATE NIGHT SET WITH THE THE COLORED WAITING ROOM AT THE LEGENDARY BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB MAY 9th DOORS OPEN 11:45 PM 131 w 3rd st, NEW YORK, NY 10012 FEATURING: DR. Guthrie P. Ramsey,JR keyboards Kenny Davis, bass David Gilmore, GUITAR RUDy Royston, drums Korey Riker, sax imani uzuri, vocals Kevin Mambo,...
In a letter to the editor of the journal The Black Perspective in Music, George Russell (1923-2009), an African American musician identified as both a composer and teacher in the publication, expressed his displeasure with the title given an interview he had granted. It was published in Spring of 1974. ...
September 27th was Bud Powell’s birthday. He would have been 89-years old. On this past Friday night I was honored to to talk about my new book The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop under the auspices of IRAAS (Institute for Research in African American Studies)...
Lecture 2: Exceptional Errors Something was terribly wrong among the black Methodists in the early 19th century. In 1819, John F. Watson, a disapproving minister, published a diatribe called Methodist Error: Or Friendly Christian Advice to those Methodists Who Indulge in Extravagant Emotions and Bodily...
I’ll admit it. Saying goodbye to summer’s reprieve is always a shock to the system, but as a hopeless academic, the fall has always been a great time of year. It means a new academic startup, meeting new students, new materials to learn and teach, and, always, always a fresh outlook on familiar...
“ In the Morning, When I Rise.” “In That Great Gettin’ Up Morning.” “My Lord, What a Morning.” There’s something about “the morning” and the Spirituals. This communal fixation with the break of day is probably linked to hope, optimism and renewal. The good news gospel that birthed...
The legendary, and hugely influential, George Duke passed away this week. While it is hard to put his multi-faceted 40 year career into words, we are grateful that Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) gave Musiqology Editor in Chief, Guthrie Ramsey, the space to process Duke’s influence on Dr. Guy’s...
All last week the brilliant site, The Feminist Wire, hosted a forum on masculinities. Their forum included nearly 30 entries that interrogated and reconsidered what we’re talking about when we say “masculine.” It was a necessary conversation. It is an important step in deconstructing...
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...
I never expected the Robert Glasper Experiment’s project Black Radio to be nominated for a Grammy in the R&B category. Everyone knew that the project was special: its blend of generic codes from jazz, R&B, hip-hop, gospel and rock defied industry logic in bold ways. Comprised of musicians...
