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
The GRAMMYs, music’s self-declared “greatest night” will return to TV screens this weekend, airing Sunday on CBS at 8PM. MusiQology managing editor John Vilanova, who’s been hard at work on a PhD dissertation that examines the awards’ record on race throughout their sixty-year history,...
Friends, colleagues, and readers: Happy New Year! We’ll be back with more article content the week of January 14, but we wanted to take a minute to encourage you to make space on your calendars for an exciting performance announcement featuring our leader, Dr. Guy, and the MusiQology band alongside...
In January of this year, Nielsen announced that, for the first time, R&B/hip-hop had become the most-consumed genre of music among U.S. consumers, evidence to back up what the radio, the club, and the blogosphere had been telling us for quite some time: Hip-hop was not outsider music on the music...
Microphone check…One, Two…What Is This? Is this thing still on? With fall beginning and school back in session, we’re getting back into the swing of things at MusiQology.com and working to continue our mission to share the academic study of music in an accessible but relevant and educational...
Writer Gay Talese set out to interview Frank Sinatra for Esquire in 1965, during a period in the singer’s career that Billboard was calling “the peak of his eminence.” Dogged by media and tired of publicity, Sinatra refused to sit for an interview with Talese at least in part due to another, seemingly...
The talk of the Internet this past week has been “This is America,” a new song and music video from rapper Childish Gambino. The video features the shirtless rapper, whose real name is Donald Glover, dancing through a vacant warehouse, occasionally picking up guns and killing other black...
Dr. Guthrie Ramsey and Dr. Guy’s MusiQology are very proud to announce the launch of a new podcast series on music, race, and the creative arts, set to debut with its first episode on Monday, April 2. The podcast, hosted by Dr. Ramsey and featuring a wide array of musicians, artists, and scholars,...
This Thursday, February 22, our fearless leader Dr. Guthrie Ramsey will deliver the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity. The lecture will be held at 5:00PM at the Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and is free to the public. We sat down with Guy to discuss the lecture,...
For a recent lecture, Managing Editor John Vilanova put together a performance of a new style of academic presentation titled “critical karaoke.” The premise—first introduced by Joshua Clover at Seattle’s Experience Music Project POP Conference—was simple: talk about a song for the length of the song...
