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
Here, at Musiqology, we pride ourselves in not just hosting engaging conversations about music, but also in making music ourselves. This is a mission birthed out of the work of our founding editor, Guthrie P. Ramsey. His long career as genre crossing pianist is a critical artery that informs his scholarship...
By Fredara M. Hadley, Managing Editor, Musiqology (@fredaraMareva) Today we celebrate Eleanor Fagan’s 100th Birthday. Eleanor Fagan is known to most of us as “Billie Holiday” or as “Lady Day” – the nickname that saxophonist Lester Young gave her. It feels like everyone...
Musiqology congratulates, Regina Bradley, Ph.D. (@redclayscholar), on her appointment as a 2015-2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Center at Harvard University! We asked Dr. Bradley about her appointment and she had this to say, I am honored and excited about my appointment...
Coming this May, there’s a new biopic about famed blues woman, Bessie Smith. We loved it before we even got a glimpse of the production because it is directed by Dee Rees (Pariah) and stars luminaries such as Queen Latifah as Bessie; Mo’Nique as Ma Rainey; and Charles S. Dutton as William...
Aja Burrell Wood is a ethnomusicologist and proud Wolverine who teaches about African American music at Brooklyn College and the New School. Follow her at @alwaysaja. Recently, we were very excited to hear that Aaron Dworkin, founder and president of the acclaimed Sphinx Organization, was appointed...
For most musicians, there’s no bigger deal than performing at Carnegie Hall. This Sunday the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Wind Symphony will do just that. Under the baton of FAMU Director of Bands, Dr. Shelby Chipman, the FAMU Wind Symphony will perform works by Jack Stamp, Eric Whitacre,...
It’s been almost two weeks since Kendrick Lamar dropped To Pimp a Butterfly (TPAB) on us and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. We are especially digging the review from friend of Musiqology, Greg Tate, for Rolling Stone. In his review Tate cuts to the heart of how Kendrick is able to package...
“High Lights and Guiding Lights in American Music” Birgitta J. Johnson (@DrBirgittaSays) is an Assistant Professor / Ethnomusicology / African American Studies at University of South Carolina. Follow her blog, Birgitta’s Music Box Review. The Society for American Music (SAM) held its forty-first...
By Justin Desmangles Two days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Coltrane entered Van Gelder’s home studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, the same one in which he would later create A Love Supreme a year later, to record his composition, Alabama. An interpretation of Rev. Martin Luther...
