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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

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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

The #BLACKBOYJOY of Smino

Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!

Happy Holidays from MusiQology!

Happy Talk (for Nancy Wilson)

Bridget Ramsey’s “Save Your Love for Me” is Assertive Artistry (and a Fitting Tribute to Nancy Wilson)

The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process

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Session 1: What is African American Music and How Does It Mean?

During the next few weeks I’ll be posting about the course I’m teaching on African American music.  Designed as a survey, it will trace developments from slavery to the present for a mix of music majors and non-majors.  The course begins with some philosophical issues about black music making in the United...

By Dr. Guthrie /  September 16, 2012
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Thickness in the Square-yah: That’s the Joint! Reader Updates Its Status at the Hiphop Archive

Professor Marcyliena Morgan, the infectious and effectual Director of Harvard University’s Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute seemed as excited as anyone as her staff buzzed around preparing for the event to celebrate the publication of the new and expanded edition of That’s the Joint!:...

By Dr. Guthrie /  November 21, 2011
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Index to Black Music Month Writings, 2011

During Black Music Month 2011 I published some thoughts on a range of historical topics spanning a couple of centuries of black music making in the United States. I began with a small June 1 post about trumpeter Roy Hargrove on my Facebook page. That exercise grew into a challenge to share something...

By Dr. Guthrie /  July 1, 2011
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On Yard Work, Public Musicology, and the Roots of Drastic Interpretation

It’s instructive to look back sometimes and try to understand the who, what, when, where, and how that got you here—and more interesting still to consider the “what is keeping me wherever here is.”  I think about it a lot. On planet musicology there are many divisions available to anyone invested...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 21, 2011
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Interstate-57, ML3556, and Drastic Interpretations: Where I’m Coming From

Part I Black Music Month, Day #15 I first discovered the ML3556 section of the library as an undergraduate and grew enamored of the literature about black music, a topic that truly charged me up academically.   Browsing the stacks became a favorite pastime as I read books by LeRoi Jones, Charlie Keil,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 15, 2011
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