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
Taking a moment to discuss figures and texts in art and culture for which we’re thankful has become a welcome tradition here at MusiQology, and we’re thrilled to present the 2018 edition of “MusiQology Gives Thanks.” The last two years when we sat down to write about what we were thankful for,...
It’s graduation week at universities across the country, so we thought we’d use this space to do two very important things. The first, of course, is to CONGRATULATE the recent graduates from our home, the University of Pennsylvania, but also the various other institutes of higher learning across...
With the unveiling of the Smithsonian-commissioned portraits of former President Barack and former First Lady Michelle Obama came a sense of wonder, attention, and excitement never before seen in the usually staid and stodgy world of White House art. Eschewing tradition, the Obamas selected Kehinde Wiley...
“It took twenty years, and some persuasion, before I agreed to write How I Became Hettie Jones, my memoir of that sixties bohemia,” Hettie Jones, the prolific force and self-effacing matriarch of the MusiQology family writes in Love, H, a new book reflecting on her own personal history through letters...
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...
We’ve had a firsthand view of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” process after Kellie Jones was awarded the prize last year for her decades of curatorial and historical work. The foundation lists three criteria for selection: “exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances...
Right on time for your spring fever to kick in, Duke University Press will release Kellie Jones’ most recent and much-anticipated book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s been quite the experience witnessing this work develop through the years. From...
#16 Bars is a recurring column at MusiQology. When we want to get a sense of the discourse around a particular pop culture moment or event, we search the web, highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse, with our own Genius-style annotations...
