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
On Friday, October 28, Dr. Guy hosted a public performance and conversation with a panel of local artists at the ICA titled “Cross Relations: Experimentation and the Arts. Setting their work in conversation with other artists and each other, Guy and the panel created a fertile space for discourse...
Columbia art historian and renowned curator, Kellie Jones (@DrKellieJones), recently spoke with the Huffington Post about the need for more intergenerational dialogue among artists, the importance of the #SayHerName movement as a critique of sexism within Black Lives Matter, and how diplomacy and art curation...
The talk of this past Summer was Kara Walker’s provocative art installation in Brooklyn entitled, “A Subtley: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion...
A brand new exhibition showcases more than forty color photographs by trailblazing African American artist Gordon Parks. Many of the exhibited works are on view for the first time. Created for an influential 1950s Life magazine article, these photographs offer a powerful look at the daily life and struggles...
September 27th was Bud Powell’s birthday. He would have been 89-years old. On this past Friday night I was honored to to talk about my new book The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop under the auspices of IRAAS (Institute for Research in African American Studies)...
The accelerated production of visual art, literature, and music that characterized the “Harlem Renaissance” during the 1920s and beyond raised rich, contemporaneous questions about black cultural politics on many levels. Among them: what did it mean to be a black artist; what was black artistry;...
The words in the title are taken from Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederick Douglass,” which was written as the movement called “Black Consciousness” defined African American cultural nationalism in the mid-1960s. In it Douglass envisions “a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien . . . ” This,...
A model of emotional compression, Rita Dove’s poem from the 1980s “The House Slave” provides a vivid snapshot of a slave community’s rustlings ‘fo day (before daylight)—children bundled in aprons, meals of cornbread, water, and salt pork, the peaceful sleep of the plantation’s mistress,...
I was in the media room of the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina where I’ve been an artist-in-resident for the last month, when a small opportunity was presented, one with powerful import. As I shared my experiences with the D.C. Boys and Girls Club Arts Camp from the previous...
