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
Featuring new voices from academia and beyond, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to provide contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. This week’s writer, making his MusiQology debut, is Martin Edward Connor. What follows is a hypothetical review of Princeton doctoral candidate and composer...
Composer Courtney Bryan has been busy! Fresh off the success of Charlotte Brathwaite’s powerful oratorio, Prophetika, a powerful musical and visual work that is inspired by the spirit and legacies of Harriet Tubman, Sun Ra, and Alice Coltrane, Courtney Bryan debuted her new work “Sanctum”...
For most musicians, there’s no bigger deal than performing at Carnegie Hall. This Sunday the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Wind Symphony will do just that. Under the baton of FAMU Director of Bands, Dr. Shelby Chipman, the FAMU Wind Symphony will perform works by Jack Stamp, Eric Whitacre,...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment...
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,...
Back in January 0f this year I wrote a piece about soprano Alicia Hall Moran’s Motown Project, her intriguing re-visiting of some of the label’s most memorable hits, interspersed with a few opera chestnuts and impressively staged in a performance/theater melodrama. I wrote about the work in the context...
Black Music Month, Day #6 (excerpt of a speech to inaugurate the Frank Johnson Collection at the University of Pennsylvania) This history of American music is more than an epic story of great composers and their works—a social constructed narrative that characterizes how Western Art Music has been...
Last week was not only my time to wind up my fall classes. (Yes!) It was also a great time to get out on the town and enjoy an eclectic mix of wintertime musicking in Philly. Although one hears many laments about what the music scene here (and everywhere, it seems) lacks, if you’re persistent […]
(Dedicated to the lovely seniors of the Spelman Glee Club) Last weekend I visited Atlanta to hear the 84th annual Christmas Concert of the Spelman Glee Club. Presented in collaboration with Morehouse College, the event is a popular destination for graduates of each school, providing them with one of many...
