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
It’s graduation week at universities across the country, so we thought we’d use this space to do two very important things. The first, of course, is to CONGRATULATE the recent graduates from our home, the University of Pennsylvania, but also the various other institutes of higher learning across...
The talk of the Internet this past week has been “This is America,” a new song and music video from rapper Childish Gambino. The video features the shirtless rapper, whose real name is Donald Glover, dancing through a vacant warehouse, occasionally picking up guns and killing other black...
The Musiqology team congratulates Mark Anthony Neal for being named the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Duke University. A friend and supporter of our work here, Mark is the preeminent scholar of black popular music working today. His work is unsurpassed...
J. Michael Harrison is this week’s guest on The MusiQology Podcast, taking Dr. Guy and the listener through the city’s musical history, touching on activism and the centrality of musical cultures to Philadelphia life. We asked him to give our readers an overview of Philly jazz’s past, present,...
It’s been more than a month since Marvel Studios’ Black Panther took theaters by storm, riding a wave of excitement and discourse built by #BlackTwitter and black Americans’ long-gestating readiness to see themselves represented on screen despite Hollywood’s ill-conceived fears about their global...
Laurin Talese is the first guest of the new MusiQology Podcast hosted by Dr. Guy. Their episode, which launched Monday, April 2, featured the two musicians in conversation around influences, histories, and expertise. The MusiQology Podcast is available at the following podcast platforms: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-musiqology-podcast/id1366597827...
Dr. Guthrie Ramsey and Dr. Guy’s MusiQology are very proud to announce the launch of a new podcast series on music, race, and the creative arts, set to debut with its first episode on Monday, April 2. The podcast, hosted by Dr. Ramsey and featuring a wide array of musicians, artists, and scholars,...
This Thursday, February 22, our fearless leader Dr. Guthrie Ramsey will deliver the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity. The lecture will be held at 5:00PM at the Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and is free to the public. We sat down with Guy to discuss the lecture,...
With the unveiling of the Smithsonian-commissioned portraits of former President Barack and former First Lady Michelle Obama came a sense of wonder, attention, and excitement never before seen in the usually staid and stodgy world of White House art. Eschewing tradition, the Obamas selected Kehinde Wiley...
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African-American Music Thursday, February 22, 2018, 5:00 pm Reception to Follow Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street Free & Open to the Public This lecture...
