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
The blues musical sensibilities that spawned gospel, jazz, rock and other American popular music styles were “secular” in their surface sheen but also spiritual, concerned with the ineffable, and depended on zealous devotion from their legions of fans and practitioners. Religion professor Robin Sylvan...
The accelerated production of visual art, literature, and music that characterized the “Harlem Renaissance” during the 1920s and beyond raised rich, contemporaneous questions about black cultural politics on many levels. Among them: what did it mean to be a black artist; what was black artistry;...
More from first year students Jennie and Davis on music in their adopted city, Philadelphia While Davis and I thoroughly enjoy venturing off-campus to various musical venues, we have also begun discovering the wonders of music within the Penn community. Penn Masala is an all-male a capella group that...
This week at The Open University in Milton Keynes, England, a conference on jazz and race takes place. Read here for the details. Guthrie Ramsey will present the keynote address “Jazz as Social Contract” on Thursday, November 11.
Check out this Jazz Times article on Ramsey Lewis’ symphonic poem that will make its Kennedy Center debut next week. Titled Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic Poem, it features a narrative written by Guthrie Ramsey.
Today, it seems the term “genius” is applied rather liberally to any new hot trend (just google “lady gaga is genius” and you get 1.7 million results debating her artistic wherewithal). In a mass social media world where everyone has an opinion and everyone is competing to discover the next great...
On July 17, 1939 jazz composers, Cabell “Cab” Calloway, Frank Froeba, and Jack Palmer collaborated to record “Jumpin Jive” with Vocalion Records. This upbeat piece featured Calloway’s scat singing accompanied by the rhythmic creativity of his famous orchestra, which included trumpeters Dizzy...
If I ask my peers now if they’ve ever heard of the song “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing),” most of them would probably not know what song I am talking about. However, I can guarantee that after hearing the first few seconds of the song, a switch will turn on and they will recognize […]
Recently, the Columbia University Library acquired the archive of poet and writer Hettie Jones, whose twenty-three books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award;...
