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
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...
What songs have gotten stuck in your head because you feel like they’re speaking directly to you? Read our article, “After Laughter,” Trauma, and Finding Comfort in an Earworm” and help us construct our collaborative playlist. Earlier this week, we published a hybrid personal essay/observation...
Writer Gay Talese set out to interview Frank Sinatra for Esquire in 1965, during a period in the singer’s career that Billboard was calling “the peak of his eminence.” Dogged by media and tired of publicity, Sinatra refused to sit for an interview with Talese at least in part due to another, seemingly...
Despite a show filled with conscious and powerful protest moments, the GRAMMY Awards themselves remain conservatively oriented towards an objective ideal of musical excellence. One of the most talked-about moments during last night’s GRAMMY Awards telecast came during a James Corden-led bit to determine...
This is the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification of concepts...
This is the third track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
For many reasons, the announcement of the 2018 GRAMMY Awards nominations is a “good” result. The “Big Three” categories—Song, Record, and Album of the Year—are blacker than any time in recent memory, with 13 of the 15 total nominations (five per category) going to non-white artists. For the first...
Last year at this time, despite what felt like a collective bottom for our nation and our world, we made sure to carve out space to reflect and express our thankfulness—to friends, colleagues, and creators who take turns keeping us grounded and helping us soar. It’s been twelve agonizing months since...
By now, you’ve probably heard that Eminem delivered a blistering freestyle during Tuesday’s BET Hip Hop Awards show, skewering Donald Trump, the many-times-accused sexual abuser and white supremacist who sits in the Oval Office thanks in no small part to foreign meddling, white racial resentment,...
