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
To watch V. Shayne Frederick—who stars in the recently released debut of Dr. Guy’s Office Hours video series and has his own new album, Lovesome, out now—perform feels like observing one of the old, early-twentieth-century masters’ energies and vocal stylings transposed into a contemporary form....
“Hurricane,” a new music video from The MusiQ Department’s Vince Anthony, is a reflection on the simplistic beauty of songwriting, recording, and the soul-restoring power of music. We at MusiQology Media are proud to share “Hurricane,” a music video by MusiQ Department artist Vince Anthony,...
Set within the milieu of the HBCU experience, Knowles’s latest masterwork captures the complexity of contemporary blackness through film, a medium that has always crystallized black representational possibility for better or worse. About halfway through Homecoming, Beyoncé Knowles’s triumphant new Netflix...
The debate over whether or not Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X’s viral hit “Old Town Road” is a “country song” is actually not a new story: It’s yet another instance of white fear about black musical encroachment into a protected music industry center. Combining slow-picked banjo sounds with the trademark...
A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris B. Hill’s new book of poetry and commentary on African American women’s incarceration from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, is a masterwork, a tour-de-force of writing and reflection, monumental in its scope and seriousness. It is the living testament to the lives...
One of the most unfettered and important musical spaces in the sound schedule of every artist is the jam session, where production and planning are eschewed in favor of spontaneity and organic creation in the moment. This Thursday, March 14, Dr. Guy and frequent collaborator Ursula Rucker will offer...
Video from two “Beach Party” films from the 1960s feature a teen-aged Stevie Wonder, long before he became the music industry’s “blind seer apocalyptically exposing America’s injustices.” We analyze these videos, which suggest that Wonder’s appearance was part of the films’ problematic...
With the dust settled and the hot takes cooled, we wanted to reflect on the surprising results of the 2019 GRAMMY Awards, which upset some longstanding patterns and pathways and doubled down on others. From the moment surprise guest Michelle Obama took the stage with hostess Alicia Keys, Jada Pinkett...
