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
Last night Aretha Franklin closed out another stellar presentation of the annual Kennedy Center Honors Awards Ceremony. This year’s honorees included: actress/singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas, actress Cicely Tyson, orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa, and singer/songwriter Carole King. Well,...
December 22nd would have been Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 55th Birthday. In honor of the celebrated artist’s birthday, Musiqology Managing Editor, Fredara M. Hadley, and acclaimed cultural critic, Greg Tate, in conjunction with the Still Fly at 55 Movement, held a robust Twitter chat about Basquiat’s...
Yesterday we learned that the police officers who shot and killed 12 year old Tamir Rice will not be indicted for criminal charges. Our hearts ache for all those who are snatched from us through state-sanctioned violence. It makes us echo the voice of the ancestors who asked this poignant question through...
Our fearless leader/editor in chief, Guthrie Ramsey (@DrGuyMusiqology), is headed to Cuba! While we await his travelogue, check out a short documentary on another Philly representatives visit to the island nation that helped transform jazz, hip hop, and gave us Queen Célia Cruz!
Columbia art historian and renowned curator, Kellie Jones (@DrKellieJones), recently spoke with the Huffington Post about the need for more intergenerational dialogue among artists, the importance of the #SayHerName movement as a critique of sexism within Black Lives Matter, and how diplomacy and art curation...
Grammys award season is upon us and I think this is a great time to ask which narratives are we following this Grammy season? It’s the time of year where we rehash the virtues (or lack thereof) of those nominated. We repost our think pieces about why an artist should not have been snubbed or is […]
This weekend the Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 60th annual meeting in Austin, Texas. As always, we’re excited that Musiqology will be represented. Managing Editor, Fredara M. Hadley and Musiqology contributors Alisha Lola Jones and Birgitta Johnson will all be making presentations...
Last night BET/Centric aired the annual Soul Train Awards. And they nailed it 92.645% of the time. There are five major things that The Soul Train Awards got right (and one unmentionable performer that they got horribly wrong). 1. Erykah Badu was the perfect host. She was funny, shady, and in all her glory...
We love this beautiful new song and video by one of Brooklyn’s most talented homegrown singers, Ms. Amma Whatt (@AmmaWhatt). Her name may not be as familiar to you as her work is, but she’s recorded with Bilal, co-written for Kindred, and opened for Common and Musiq Soulchild. We think her new song...
