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MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center

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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

The #BLACKBOYJOY of Smino

Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!

Happy Holidays from MusiQology!

Happy Talk (for Nancy Wilson)

Bridget Ramsey’s “Save Your Love for Me” is Assertive Artistry (and a Fitting Tribute to Nancy Wilson)

The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process

Home 2010 April

Skin Deep: Africana Studies in Our Time

Editor’s Note:  According to a recently produced “diversity timeline,” the Du Bois College House, a residence hall on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, began “as an experimental living-learning program for African-American students” in 1972. The house was named for William Edward...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 29, 2010
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Caveat Emptor! (Or Let the Buyer Beware): A Blog about Blogs and Black Mass Media

I can’t fully explain the power of Chuck D’s words from more than twenty years ago, that “Rap music is CNN for black America,” exerted on me.  I became aware of them long after the moment in which they were initially uttered, and they have now resurfaced in my mind long after I first read […]

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 26, 2010
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Does She Still Have It? Thoughts on Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It

This semester I taught Spike Lee’s 1986 breakout film She’s Gotta Have It  as an example of  work that was produced during the age of “The New Black Aesthetic,” a term coined by writer Trey Ellis in 1989. In its moment, the film was critically acclaimed: it was a favorite at Cannes...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 24, 2010
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It’s Show Time at the Museum!: Apollo Theater Exhibition Opens in DC

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, premiered its latest exhibition this week.  Titled Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, it focuses on the famed New York theater and its role in building the careers...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 23, 2010
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Funk, Fire, and the Afro-Future”: Music in 1970s Chicago

Earth Wind and Fire’s 1981 hit, “Let’s Groove,” kicks off with a shuffled hi-hat rhythm penetrated by deep, tight bass drum kicks. In the lower registers, vocals passing through a vocoder synthesizer conflate the line between words and bass, mouthing a thick and fuzzy “Down…boogie down…down...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 14, 2010
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One of Those “Chicago” Voices: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singing

Anyone who’s heard her sing can tell you: Mahalia Jackson had “one of those voices.”  It was one of those voices that renders your own silent–it’s expressive power so palpable, you can’t help but silently listen.  But beyond the enraptured moments of ineffability, what exactly is it about...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 13, 2010
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Between History and “The People”: Thoughts on Re-Imagining a Black Metropolis

February was Black History month. High school walls were plastered with static pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman. All were reminded of the popular, pervasive, skeletal chronology of America’s Black history: slavery, Civil Rights, Obama. What happens when the public memorial of eminent...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 9, 2010
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What is the Chicago Project?

This semester I’ve been teaching a course titled “From the Blues to Obama: History, Culture, and Power in Black Chicago.”  The MusiQology Blog has already begun to feature what we are calling the Chicago Project–a series of entries on various and sundry aspects of the Windy City.  (We will...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 5, 2010
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Dangerous Curves, Big Pipes and Bigger Ideas: Ledisi Live!

I heard that the singer Ledisi would be performing live a few towns over and took my first plunge. Her recordings and songwriting have always mesmerized me. Indeed, she inspires good will from music lovers, especially those into Neo Soul, the family of popular styles that have been developing since the mid-1990s....

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 4, 2010
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Embodied Theory and Intellectualized Practice: Thoughts on Music, Athletics, and Dance

Rarely does the public regard great musicians, dancers, or athletes as great intellectuals. This is quite surprising considering that, after all, the brain is a vital part of the body and plays a crucial role in orchestrating its accomplishments. Therefore, while we certainly should appreciate the physicality...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 2, 2010
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