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
One of Dr. Guy’s special guests for his upcoming The Poets & A Song is Hettie Jones. Ms. Jones is a hugely influential figure and prolific writer whose memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, is a seminal text for understanding the complexities of the Civil Rights Era. Her latest, a collection of letters...
Black Superheroes Though the debut of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther is drawing rave reviews, another group of black superheroes were honored this past weekend with the induction of N.W.A to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For a group that battled the police and censors during their meteoric rise,...
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...
It’s here! This week on Friday, January 20 we will release the first single from the CD The Colored Waiting Room! This event will be a free download for a limited time only. Let’s call it Free Follow Friday. The song is an arrangement of Oliver Nelson’s classic piece “Stolen Moments.” ...
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...
Part I Black Music Month, Day #15 I first discovered the ML3556 section of the library as an undergraduate and grew enamored of the literature about black music, a topic that truly charged me up academically. Browsing the stacks became a favorite pastime as I read books by LeRoi Jones, Charlie Keil,...
What exactly is it about the Great Migration of black southerners to Chicago (1910-1940) that spells modernity? Often the answer to this question gets bundled up with the notion of ‘modernism’—a word that serves as an irksome shorthand for the common traits of cultural and artistic phenomena of the first...
To me, there is always something special about musicians who can use traditional instruments (voice, guitar, piano, for example) in ways that leave an audience stunned. Better yet are the musicians who can use tried and true musical concepts while adding their own flair. A fine example of this musical...
Blues music was born in the African American communities in the United States in the late 19th century as an outlet for the downtrodden and oppressed, an escape valve for the sad or disheartened. Blues music, originally ignored by recording studios and the white American public, was a raw, soulful cry that...
