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
“ In the Morning, When I Rise.” “In That Great Gettin’ Up Morning.” “My Lord, What a Morning.” There’s something about “the morning” and the Spirituals. This communal fixation with the break of day is probably linked to hope, optimism and renewal. The good news gospel that birthed...
I learned about ethnomusicologist Birgitta Johnson through social media. As I read and pondered her posts, I experienced what can only be described as a force. Forget what Justin Timberlake claimed he did. Dr. Johnson, in my view, is bringing the MUSIC back to cultural studies focused music...
The legendary, and hugely influential, George Duke passed away this week. While it is hard to put his multi-faceted 40 year career into words, we are grateful that Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) gave Musiqology Editor in Chief, Guthrie Ramsey, the space to process Duke’s influence on Dr. Guy’s...
For cultural adventurers like us, summer is when routine pressures relax a bit, and we find time to pull it in–catch up with reading, summer concerts, new recordings and with one another. During a recent conversation with Musiqology’s managing editor, Dr. Fredara Hadley (our favorite resident...
We are happy to announce the launch of the newly revamped Musiqology.com! Our team has worked tirelessly the past few weeks to think through our mission while listening to you, our great readers. We’re thrilled to share our new look and to work even harder to make Musiqology your reliable and enjoyable...
~For Ken Schropshire Spring is here and baseball and integration are in the air! Everywhere we turn the idea of racial integration—from the recent films Lincoln and The Help to the GOP’s current tactical shift recognizing nonwhites as (gasp) potential voters—is painted primarily as a benevolent...
The release of Justin Timberlake’s latest CD The 20/20 Experience last week met fanfare, market analysis, and some unusually frank talk about singing, dancing, raced bodies. Timberlake’s musical successes have made him, in the eyes of his vast following, either the crown prince of pop or a rip off artist,...
Beyoncé is everywhere. She’s one of the top pop music stars of the 21st Century…and married to another top music star of the 21st Century. Her ubiquity alone is enough to entice academic discourse, but even more enticingly she’s a woman who is the head of a multi-million dollar global...
All last week the brilliant site, The Feminist Wire, hosted a forum on masculinities. Their forum included nearly 30 entries that interrogated and reconsidered what we’re talking about when we say “masculine.” It was a necessary conversation. It is an important step in deconstructing...
