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
Aja Burrell Wood is a ethnomusicologist and proud Wolverine who teaches about African American music at Brooklyn College and the New School. Follow her at @alwaysaja. Recently, we were very excited to hear that Aaron Dworkin, founder and president of the acclaimed Sphinx Organization, was appointed...
“High Lights and Guiding Lights in American Music” Birgitta J. Johnson (@DrBirgittaSays) is an Assistant Professor / Ethnomusicology / African American Studies at University of South Carolina. Follow her blog, Birgitta’s Music Box Review. The Society for American Music (SAM) held its forty-first...
Friend of Musiqology, David I. Leonard (@drdavidjleonard), is the latest to weigh in on the importance of academics continuing to contribute to the public sphere (read: blogging, Facebooking, Tweeting). Read an excerpt below and the full piece at Curriculum Vitae. Hello, my name is David, and I am a scholar...
In news that should surprise no one, diversity in higher education is still a challenge for African American and Latino faculty. Colleen Flaherty writes discusses the troubling findings for Inside Higher Ed, Eagan said he “wished” he’d been surprised by the data on diversity, but wasn’t. He encouraged...
Recently, the Duke University Chapel and the Duke Jazz Studies program united to host a Jazz Vespers Service. Duke professor, Mark Anthony Neal, attended and describes the event for us. Luke A. Powery, the Dean of the Chapel at Duke University was joined by the John Brown (little) Big Band and vocalist...
Lately Lincoln University of Pennsylvania has been in the news for the wrong reason. Its president. University President, Robert Jennings, went on a completely inappropriate and inflammatory diatribe about long dresses, “respectable” women, and predatory black men. The discussion was a mess...
Scholar/Artist E. Patrick Johnson is challenging how academics typically think of ethnography. Traditionally researcher collect oral histories and interview collaborators and write their findings up in a book published by an academic press. Johnson is taking a different approach where he is distilling...
Congratulations to musician, Meshell Ndegeocello, and artist, Wanghechi Mutu, on being named 2014 U.S.A. Fellows. The two are among 34 for artists who were awarded $50,000 from the United States Artist Program. “U.S.A. Fellowships are awarded to innovative artists of all ages and at all stages of their...
The prestigious Harvard Business School is offering a course on the “Business of Being Beyoncé.” If one wants to examine the methods of building global multimedia empire there is no one better to analyze than Queen Bey herself. Now, HBS isn’t the first institution to add the pop star...
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...
