Save the Date: Dr. Guy’s Musiqology at the Annenberg Center

We are excited to announce that Musiqology editor in chief will be hosting a special night of protest music at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia on October 16th. Fortunately, tickets are still available.

The tense times in which we live demand a musical response, read more from the Philadelphia Inquirer about this special night below.

Pianist Guthrie Ramsey of Dr. Guy’s Musiqology is also a music-history professor at the University of Pennsylvania. With his ensemble, he will present “Everybody’s Protest Music,” a riff on James Baldwin’s essay “Everybody’s Protest Novel.”

“We’re really in a moment of protest here and around the world,” said Ramsey. “As a historian, I know these cycles come up throughout American history.”

His performance will be packed with protest songs, some original and some covers; spoken-word poetry; and love songs. At times, he says, love is protest.

“Happiness can be protest when there’s no rational reason to be,” he said. “Joyful people somehow dig deep into themselves.”

Read more at Philly.com