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
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary 13th is a powerful film that details how the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolished slavery and simultaneously established the pretext for the criminalization and mass incarceration of black and brown Americans. The slavery “loophole”...
Featuring new voices and contributors, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to feature new contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. In its debut edition, first-time MusiQology contributor Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn gives his impression of two exhibits at the Philadelphia...
This week, Dr. Guy will be presenting two lectures as the scholar-in-residence at Baylor University. These events are free and open to the public. Monday, September 26 (6PM CENTRAL), Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church: “Y’all Like That?: Contemporary Gospel Music and the Sacred-Secular...
What does “genius” look like from a bird’s eye view? She sets the alarm for 4AM to finish the essay, to prepare the lecture, to capture the sprite muse. It stations itself at the same simple wooden desk she’s been writing on since she left home for college because it functions well, and there’s...
Hip-Hop Awards and Wars BET hosted its annual Hip-Hop Awards this past weekend in Atlanta, honoring the game’s bright new faces and living legends. The headlining award went to Snoop Dogg, who received the validating “I Am Hip Hop” award for his lifetime of beats and rhymes. “He mastered the game...
Two weeks ago, Dr. Guy decamped for South Africa to deliver a keynote lecture at the annual congress of the South African Society for Research in Music. Titled “Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African American Music Culture,” the paper discussed how cultural memory, artistic...
Genre moves and stylistic shifts are hard to traverse for many of the most capable artists — you become known for one thing and, usually, one thing only. Such was and was not the case for Bobby Hutcherson, who died earlier this week. He was 75. Hutcherson was singularly known for his work on the vibraphone,...
“Whether I like it or not, for example, and no matter what I call myself, I suppose the only word for me, when the chips are down, is that I am an artist.” Those words, spoken by estimable essayist, author, and critic James Baldwin, speak to the complex role of an artist making creative work […]
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running each week, we curate a selection of relevant items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and spin when it makes sense. With any luck, you’ll be able to spend a little less time browsing the web for what...
Late last month, one of the mid-twentieth century’s greatest sidemen departed planet earth at its unfunkiest. His name was Bernie Worrell, the mad scientist behind the keyboards who piloted the Parliament-Funkadelic Afrofuturist mothership. He leaves behind an incredibly diverse sonic legacy. ...
