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
Whether today is your celebrated holiday or not, the Musiqology family wishes you a season of love, peace and joy. And. It’s only fitting that we share the wishes of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, who joined the ancestors on Christmas Day in 2006. Merry SOULFUL Christmas!
Tuesday, Novemeber 7th, 2014, the incomparable Stevie Wonder made his first stop on a special 12-city tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City. There, he sang his 1976 landmark double album, Songs in the Key of Life. Stevie Wonder, with one of the best bands and string sections assembled, singing...
On August 9, 2014 Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson. There have been protests, town hall meetings, and autopsies, yet no indictment for the killing of the unarmed teenager. Thankfully, Dr. Birgitta Johnson (@DrBirgittaSays) created a playlist...
Biographies—whether they are represented in books or films—are necessarily selective and reductive. If they weren’t we’d be subjected to 1000-page books or five-hour long movies on a single subject. And even then it would be impossible to capture all the nuance of a life, especially those...
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...
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...
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...
Black Music Month, Day #27 Before MTV videos, You Tube, digital downloads, nickelodeons, and television variety shows, fans of American popular music had to go to live music venues to enjoy their favorite artists. From the stages of these spaces, both large and small, audiences experienced the larger-than-life...
Black Music Month, Day #7 Flash of the Spirit is about visual and philosophic streams of creativity and imagination, running parallel to the massive musical and choreographic modalities that connect black persons of the western hemisphere, as well as the millions of European and Asian people attracted...
Black Music Month Day # 4 When the film Superfly appeared in 1972, cinematic representations of African American men fit into a rather narrow mold. The image of actor Sidney Poitier had loomed large since the 1950s. Suave, worldly, clean-cut, and reared in the Bahamas, this charmer had embossed his virtuous...
