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
We’re so proud to announce a spate of new releases from our imprint, The MusiQ Department. The first is an EP titled Jazz Nonstandards by Bridget Ramsey, which offers new and exciting twists on the jazz repertoire. The second is a layered and thoughtful single by Vince Anthony titled “Hurricane.”...
Eagles fever has taken over MusiQ0logy’s home base in Philadelphia, with the team winning the city’s first Super Bowl ever in an exciting game that was marked by a growing interest in critical social inquiry around the sport itself. With their sustained protest presence this season, the Philadelphia...
This is the second track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
This is the first track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the preeminent black intellectual of our time, is a scholar whose work engages in many registers. I say this not only because of his wide profile—from the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to the James Baldwin-esque Between the World and Me—but also because his work is inflected...
Honestly, I’m weary of conversations. The disappointment comes less from the exhausted topics (gender, race, etc.) and more from my community’s lack of nuance on such themes. Folk involved are crafty with talking at, over, about, and/ or through people, but haven’t acknowledged the need for listening...
16 Bars is a recurring column at MusiQology. When we want to get a sense of the discourse around a particular pop culture moment or event, we search the web, highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse. A sign of a rapper’s ability is his or […]
While every day is a celebration of African American and Afro-Diasporic music here at MusiQology, the White House once again declared June to be the month where the nation recognizes the contributions of black artists from Bud Powell to Beyoncé and everyone in between. This month, as every month, we renew...
“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 […]
Good Life While the lead-up was bloated, unwieldy, and inexorably behind schedule, Kanye West finally released his new album, The Life of Pablo, on Jay Z’s Tidal late Saturday evening. West held a surrealistic spectacle of a listening party at New York’s Madison Square Garden last week, with 1,200...
