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
[su_pullquote]When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone. — Amiri Baraka[/su_pullquote] “What’s happening, man?,” B would say with genuine...
[su_pullquote]When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone. – Amiri Baraka [/su_pullquote]- The January 9, 2014 passing of Amiri Baraka, the great...
From the hallowed halls of Columbia University to the thoughtful minds of the Universities of California, Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey’s latest book, The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop, generates impassioned discussion. Recently, Michael Schapira, of the literary...
A lot has been said about Steve McQueen’s poignantly painful film, 12 Years a Slave. And rightfully so. Amid a class of films–such as Django and The Butler– that discuss slavery (or the legacy of it) 12 Years a Slave is an emotionally jarring look at one man’s tragic journey...
Last week Team Musiqology made our way down Interstate 95 to Jatworld, the recording studio of musician and producer Jerry Thompson and located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Although the crew is New York based, it’s important to us keep our Philly roots strong because it is, after all, where the idea...
September 27th was Bud Powell’s birthday. He would have been 89-years old. On this past Friday night I was honored to to talk about my new book The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop under the auspices of IRAAS (Institute for Research in African American Studies)...
Lecture 2: Exceptional Errors Something was terribly wrong among the black Methodists in the early 19th century. In 1819, John F. Watson, a disapproving minister, published a diatribe called Methodist Error: Or Friendly Christian Advice to those Methodists Who Indulge in Extravagant Emotions and Bodily...
Together with my course “Jazz Speaks for Life,” I’m also teaching “The Big Sea: An Introduction to Africana Studies.” This course provides an introduction to the field of Africana Studies and what has marked its distinctive and continuous development as a discipline separate from, but inextricably...
I’ll admit it. Saying goodbye to summer’s reprieve is always a shock to the system, but as a hopeless academic, the fall has always been a great time of year. It means a new academic startup, meeting new students, new materials to learn and teach, and, always, always a fresh outlook on familiar...
Well, I guess it’s “all in” for the next semester and a new year for Musiqology. We hope you like our new look. But don’t think we’re “all front and no back” because we’ve got big plans afoot about content, so please stay tuned musiqologists! It was stunning this summer to read Langston...
