Breaking

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

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 2011 June (Page 2)

A Song From a Father: Little London’s Lullaby

Black Music Month, Day #19 As a young father raising three active kids clustered close in age, one needed survival techniques.  Life was messy, challenging, and rewarding–all that good stuff.  But I knew where to get help, where I always got it: music.  I wrote a song or a chant for every kid occasion:...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 19, 2011
18 Comments

Funky Electric Goddesses—Ramsey Lewis Looks Back to the Future

Black Music Month, Day #18 Below are the liner notes that I’ve written for Ramsey Lewis’ exciting soon-to-be-released CD, Taking Another Look on Hidden Beach Records.  Ramsey and I first worked together when I served as a librettist and creative consultant on his Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 18, 2011
1 Comment

Scoring Africa and the World: A Film by Tukufu Zuberi

Black Music Month, Day #17 Scoring film has been a goal of mine for a long time.  I routinely teach how music enhances the storyworld of a film and how viewers have been socialized to internalize and unconsciously respond to these musical codes.  Hip-hop films and their soundtracks, for example, constitute...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 17, 2011
0 Comment

To The Left: Ramsey on Music, Museums, and Keepin’ Up with the Joneses

Black Music Month, Day #16 Today’s posting is a video of my appearance on Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal’s program, Left of Black.  We’ve all witnessed interviews in which it’s clear that the show’s producers and not the host prepared for show.  Not so here. We chopped...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 16, 2011
0 Comment

Interstate-57, ML3556, and Drastic Interpretations: Where I’m Coming From

Part I Black Music Month, Day #15 I first discovered the ML3556 section of the library as an undergraduate and grew enamored of the literature about black music, a topic that truly charged me up academically.   Browsing the stacks became a favorite pastime as I read books by LeRoi Jones, Charlie Keil,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 15, 2011
0 Comment

Git Down to Get Over: Rejoice, Twist, and Shout on the Gospel Highway

Black Music Month Day #14 FILM REVIEW Rejoice and Shout (2010) Director Don McGlynn Begins June 24 ,2011  Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia Rejoice and Shout opens with a showstopper.  A young, adorable brown skin girl sitting in a church pew, lovingly cloistered by many of her mostly female family...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 14, 2011
0 Comment

You Say You Want a Revolution? The Beatles, Stevie Wonder and Musical Genius as Moral Authority

Black Music Month Day #13 Now that Dirk and the Boys from Texas have secured their franchise’s first championship last night, it might be fun to go back to the vault and think about a classic moment in which the NBA and music history intersected provocatively. Before game three of the 2005 NBA Finals,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 13, 2011
0 Comment

His Mic Sound Nice: Remembering “The Whistling Coon”

Black Music Month #12 Okay, maybe not so nice to our modern sensibilities, but to pioneer George W. Johnson, a former slave, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, the opportunity to record for twenty cents a song in 1890 for the New Jersey Phonograph Company was irresistible.  As Tim Brooks shares...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 12, 2011
0 Comment

Message to Michael: On Sound, Space and Architecture in Bubble Gum Soul

Black Music Month Day #11 Almost two years ago, on the 25thof June, during Black Music Month, the world said a very sad goodbye to Michael Joseph Jackson, who had passed away too soon.  Although he became a pop star, he was also considered larger than any generic label or marketing category because...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 11, 2011
1 Comment

But Chain$ and Whip$ Excite Me: Female Pulchritude, Rape, and Music Videos as Public Service Announcement

Black Music Month, Day #10 Rape is an assaulting, horrible act of violence against females and males, compelling a non-consenting victim into sexual acts against their will for which there is no excuse or reasonable explanation. So here’s how I’ve been spending my time in these lazy, hazy days of summer:...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 10, 2011
0 Comment


Page 2 of 3