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
MusiQology is proud to continue its collaborative partnership with The 365 Project, which features 365 days of African American history via the Instagram channel @365DaysofBlackHistory. Each week in September, we’ll be featuring the posts from the previous week of shares, which all fall under...
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. Thanks to the efforts of Kenny...
“Step Forward,” the debut track from Eleven, a Penn musical duo featuring Karis Stephen and Blue Bookhard, doesn’t sound like something composed in a dorm room fueled by ramen and Red Bull. Instead, there’s a kind of sheen to the minimalist beat and intentionally disaffected delivery. The track...
One of the longstanding (and valid) laments about Black History Month comes with a bit of irony: “Of COURSE February is Black History Month. It’s the shortest one.” While many people understand that black history IS American history, that does not mean that the specific contributions of African...
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary 13th is a powerful film that details how the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolished slavery and simultaneously established the pretext for the criminalization and mass incarceration of black and brown Americans. The slavery “loophole”...
This week, Dr. Guy will be presenting two lectures as the scholar-in-residence at Baylor University. These events are free and open to the public. Monday, September 26 (6PM CENTRAL), Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church: “Y’all Like That?: Contemporary Gospel Music and the Sacred-Secular...
Two weeks ago, Dr. Guy decamped for South Africa to deliver a keynote lecture at the annual congress of the South African Society for Research in Music. Titled “Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African American Music Culture,” the paper discussed how cultural memory, artistic...
Trading Fours is a new recurring column at MusiQology where we present the often-obtuse format of academic conversation in a more organized and easily consumable way. We set two voices in conversation around a theme or set of topics, restricting each contribution to four sentences maximum. This keeps...
For anyone who is attending this year’s American Musicological Society meeting or anyone living in Louisville, Musiqology will be representing at the following panel: “Music and Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity” on Thursday at 8pm in Grand Ballroom B. Musiqology contributor, Alisha...
We are extremely grateful to everyone who came out and enjoyed Dr. Guy’s Musiqology Presents “Everybody’s Protest Music” at the Annenberg Center on October 16th. It was a sold out performance and a powerful night of music and reflection. If you missed the performance, or if you want...
