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
From Izzy Lopez, a Penn undergraduate student, comes this new and thoughtful look at Cardi B, the woman who has taken over the music industry and popular culture zeitgeist in tandem. Lopez asks why media narratives of Cardi’s rise wind up feeling so formulaic–arguing that a broader discomfort...
To make jazz in at the turn of the century was and is a weighing—of genealogical tradition and new-school vitality; of fealty to the elders and a desire to have one’s voice heard; between the conservatory and the club. Roy Hargrove, who passed away over the weekend at the too-young age of 49, was a […]
From MusiQology contributor Martin Connor comes this in-depth look at the lyrics of Kanye West, erstwhile progressive-rapper-turned-Trump-supporter trapped in the Sunken Place. Connor takes a still relatively open, cognitively dissonant question—“Why does Kanye West support Donald Trump?”—and...
Earlier this week, our new imprint, The MusiQ Department, debuted their initial release, a Bridget Ramsey-fronted cover of the jazz standard “The Very Thought of You” that challenges the songbook staple and pushes it in new directions. Produced at Philly’s Turtle Studios by Vince Anthony, Guthrie...
Earlier in 2018, we launched Dr. Guy’s MusiQology Podcast, a new wing of the MusiQology project of accessible scholarship and public-reaching impact from our fearless leader Dr. Guy. We hoped that the MusiQology podcast would bring our work into a new medium in a digital age, taking the often-cloistered...
What songs have gotten stuck in your head because you feel like they’re speaking directly to you? Read our article, “After Laughter,” Trauma, and Finding Comfort in an Earworm” and help us construct our collaborative playlist. Earlier this week, we published a hybrid personal essay/observation...
Sometimes a song sticks in your head for days or weeks or months, reverberating around your skull and senses. This phenomenon—which goes by many names including “sticky music,” “Involuntary Musical Imagery,” and “earworm,” the most common usage—has been the subject of a number of rigorous...
We thought we’d use our platform to signal-boost a wonderfully thoughtful piece of writing on Jay Z, Tidal, and capitalism by Kitanya Harrison. Harrison’s piece, originally published on Medium, explores the news of false streaming data from Tidal. The music industry has a sordid history...
Writer Gay Talese set out to interview Frank Sinatra for Esquire in 1965, during a period in the singer’s career that Billboard was calling “the peak of his eminence.” Dogged by media and tired of publicity, Sinatra refused to sit for an interview with Talese at least in part due to another, seemingly...
The MusiQology Team would like to take a moment and recognize when love is in the air! Because the world needs love more than anything else right now. We offer our sincere and heartfelt congratulations to our hard-working Managing Editor, John Vilanova, and his awesome and accomplished fiance, Sara Leavens...
