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
At the same time that early bebop musicians forged their new musical language, a community of black visual artists and writers thrived in New York. Black artists experimented across mediums and manipulated the forms, vocabularies, and scope of their work, and in the process they expanded, questioned,...
Black Music Month, Day 8 Nina Simone’s performance of the spiritual “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” enjoys several aesthetic and ideological tributaries that contribute to its power, its riveting grip on listeners (check out the youtube comments). Simone’s alto voice combines with her own piano...
Black Music Month, Day #7 Flash of the Spirit is about visual and philosophic streams of creativity and imagination, running parallel to the massive musical and choreographic modalities that connect black persons of the western hemisphere, as well as the millions of European and Asian people attracted...
Black Music Month, Day #6 (excerpt of a speech to inaugurate the Frank Johnson Collection at the University of Pennsylvania) This history of American music is more than an epic story of great composers and their works—a social constructed narrative that characterizes how Western Art Music has been...
Black Music Month Day #5 Dear Patrice Rushen: We’ve met a couple of times, once at an Indiana University symposium and another at Jazz at Lincoln Center where you were touring with Donald Harrison’s band. That’s okay. You may not remember me, but we actually go way back. I first learned about...
Black Music Month Day # 4 When the film Superfly appeared in 1972, cinematic representations of African American men fit into a rather narrow mold. The image of actor Sidney Poitier had loomed large since the 1950s. Suave, worldly, clean-cut, and reared in the Bahamas, this charmer had embossed his virtuous...
Black Music Month Day #3 When bebop appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the mid 1940s, the general public heard it as something strange, something new. Sounding self-consciously “modern” to many, the creators of bebop crafted, individually and collectively, a musical style that combined...
Black Music Month Day #2: Let’s give the first ladies of gospel genius, The Clark Sisters, some love. From 1997, this is actually a remix of one of Twinkie’s chestnuts from back in the day. The form is tricky—two long sections that sound like two separate verses (Twinkie was always musically...
