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
We want to give some special attention to this fantastic performance featuring Dianne Reeves and Norm Lewis singing the Gershwin songbook at Lincoln Center this past New Years Eve. While we’re at it, we want to express “Congratulations” to Ms. Reeves for her 2015 Grammy nomination for Best...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment...
For Birgitta Johnson and Treva Lindsey, Critics-At-Large I don’t remember having many TV shows that I watched obsessively after I became an adult. TV was mostly for those times when I was broke, lonely, bored or any combination of these. There was Saturday Night Live (no money/no date); the afternoon...
José James and Talia Billig created a beautiful video for his cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” I’m grateful they included me, along with folx like Robert Glasper, Feminista Jones, Rich Medina, and Spinna Dj-Vincent Williams so that I could “speak” the name...
Acclaimed rapper, Talib Kweli, is building a long lasting career. He’s one of the few artists who is weathering the changes of the music industry and continues to record and tour consistently. This is no small feat. The music industry was enjoying the last of its halcyon days when he, and fellow...
What’s most important to know is that Azealia Banks (@AZEALIABANKS) is a talented artist bars no punches when it comes to speaking her truth. Her truth is one that emanates from being 23 year old Black woman raised in Washington Heights, New York City. She was raised on avant garde jazz, R&B...
Today, as the scent of 2015 is still brand new, we want to celebrate the lives of two lifelong activists who are very dear to the Musiqology family and who transitioned to the exalted realm of the ancestors in 2014: Florence Tate and Amiri Baraka. Florence Tate was a Black woman, wife, mother, journalist,...
Musiqology would like to take the time to recognize the passing of a true legend, Andrae Crouch. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, in the 1970s Crouch was a contemporary of gospel greats such as the Hawkins family. His unique gospel sound and his work with gospel ensembles helped usher in a new […]
If you are like us, you are still digesting D’Angelo’s latest offering, Black Messiah. Recently, The Root asked Musiqology Advisory Board Member, Emily Lordi for her thoughts. She accurately presents the album as D’Angelo’s response to the community’s call that, “Black...
For David Leonard When the word spread that ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott had passed away at 49 this weekend, tributes flooded the airwaves and social media. Writer Michael Wilbon tweeted that he’d “changed the way we talked about sports, and in doing so put himself on ESPN’s Mount Rushmore.”...
