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
One of hip-hop’s most theoretically rich performance practices is the cypher—a taking-turns display in which emcees alternate delivering freestyle raps, constructing a collective discursive space. While proximate to the “rap battle” tradition, the cypher is not singularly a clash of emcees; instead...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the preeminent black intellectual of our time, is a scholar whose work engages in many registers. I say this not only because of his wide profile—from the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to the James Baldwin-esque Between the World and Me—but also because his work is inflected...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s semi-regular news round-up. We curate a selection of relevant news items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and contextualizing the moments within a broader conversation. In some cases, we’ll be drawing your attention...
Mixed media is the future, but it is also the past. Our memories have sound, vision, smell, taste. A good recording tells you the temperature of the room, the mood of the singer, and the response of the crowd. Video archives lend rhythm and subjectivity to the written word. In these times, our media...
By now, you’ve probably heard that Eminem delivered a blistering freestyle during Tuesday’s BET Hip Hop Awards show, skewering Donald Trump, the many-times-accused sexual abuser and white supremacist who sits in the Oval Office thanks in no small part to foreign meddling, white racial resentment,...
We’ve had a firsthand view of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” process after Kellie Jones was awarded the prize last year for her decades of curatorial and historical work. The foundation lists three criteria for selection: “exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances...
When one thinks of the lush instrumentals and funk gestures that characterized the vibrant moment in our native city’s history that came to be known as Philadelphia Soul, two names come to mind. There’s Gamble. There’s Huff. Their Philadelphia International Records, with acts like The O’Jays,...
The soul singer Charles Bradley died from liver cancer on September 23 at the age of 68. His debut album, No Time for Dreaming, was not released until 2011, when he was 63 years old. These are probably the two most noted facts about Charles Bradley. Despite the fact that most only knew him during […]
“I can hear the even breathing that creates passages to dreams,” Claudia Rankine writes in Citizen, her renowned 2014 meditation on racism and its effect on the lives and existences of people of color. “And yes, I want to interrupt to tell him her us you me I don’t know how to end what doesn’t...
MusiQology is proud to continue its collaborative partnership with The 365 Project, which features 365 days of African American history via the Instagram channel @365DaysofBlackHistory. Each week in September, we’ll be featuring the posts from the previous week of shares, which all fall under...
