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
Last year at this time, despite what felt like a collective bottom for our nation and our world, we made sure to carve out space to reflect and express our thankfulness—to friends, colleagues, and creators who take turns keeping us grounded and helping us soar. It’s been twelve agonizing months since...
One of hip-hop’s most theoretically rich performance practices is the cypher—a taking-turns display in which emcees alternate delivering freestyle raps, constructing a collective discursive space. While proximate to the “rap battle” tradition, the cypher is not singularly a clash of emcees; instead...
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...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s semi-regular news round-up. We curate a selection of relevant news items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and contextualizing the moments within a broader conversation. In some cases, we’ll be drawing your attention...
We mentioned Elias Leight’s wonderful Rolling Stone article in our most recent What’s Going On, but wanted to feature it again at length here. This kind of meso-level analysis of the music industry is illustrative of how we can wed industry analysis, historigraphy, journalism, and musicological...
After the positive response to Dr. Guy’s “Nasty Women Don’t Get the Blues (But They Write About Them)” Syllabus last week, we thought we’d share another syllabus, generated as a final project by Managing Editor John Vilanova for the Nasty Women class final project. The syllabus—intended...
One of the exciting things about the academic career path is the chance to plot a new course forward every September and January. Each semester gives professors the opportunity to design new syllabi–fourteen weeks of readings and discussions follow, organized around a specific topic or theme....
One of the emergent genres of criticism and reporting has been the podcast—a medium that blends the format of talk radio with the on-the-go, on-demand of contemporary life. While laying claim to the “first” podcast is hazy, today, 21% of Americans over the age of 12 have listened to at least one podcast...
Team Musiqology strongly represented at the Centennial meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In case you couldn’t make it to Atlanta, please enjoy the following panel: ASALH100 Round Table: Baraka’s Blues People at 50: Race, Rhythm, and Views in the Study...
This year’s ASALH was an affirming and transformational experience, but you don’t have to take my word for it. Here from our fellow panelists ruminate on their ASALH experience and we share a few photo highlights. Fredara M. Hadley Managing Editor, Musiqology (All photos in this...
