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
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...
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...
Sometimes a song sticks in your head for days or weeks or months, reverberating around your skull and senses. This phenomenon—which goes by many names including “sticky music,” “Involuntary Musical Imagery,” and “earworm,” the most common usage—has been the subject of a number of rigorous...
We thought we’d use our platform to signal-boost a wonderfully thoughtful piece of writing on Jay Z, Tidal, and capitalism by Kitanya Harrison. Harrison’s piece, originally published on Medium, explores the news of false streaming data from Tidal. The music industry has a sordid history...
Featuring new voices from academia and beyond, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to provide contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. This week’s writer, making his MusiQology debut reporting live from Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize award ceremony, is Simon Ghebreyesus. ...
The talk of the Internet this past week has been “This is America,” a new song and music video from rapper Childish Gambino. The video features the shirtless rapper, whose real name is Donald Glover, dancing through a vacant warehouse, occasionally picking up guns and killing other black...
It’s been more than a month since Marvel Studios’ Black Panther took theaters by storm, riding a wave of excitement and discourse built by #BlackTwitter and black Americans’ long-gestating readiness to see themselves represented on screen despite Hollywood’s ill-conceived fears about their global...
