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
Jazz legend Charlie Parker once outlined a three-step regimen for preparation in music. “You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice,” he said. “And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.” We’re somewhere between...
“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it,” James Baldwin once wrote. What does it mean to “really hear it” and why is it experienced so differently from listener to listener? When is a love song happy for some and bittersweet for others? When is a hip-hop song politically...
16 Bars is a new 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...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running each week, we curate a selection of relevant items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and spin when it makes sense. With any luck, you’ll be able to spend a little less time browsing the web for what...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running each week, we curate a selection of relevant items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and spin when it makes sense. With any luck, you’ll be able to spend a little less time browsing the web for what...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running each week, we curate a selection of relevant items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and spin when it makes sense. With any luck, you’ll be able to spend a little less time browsing the web for what...
In advance of this weekend’s Academy Awards broadcast, a group of scholars, students, and working professionals assembled at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania for a panel discussion on Media, Race, and the Oscars Controversy after the Academy failed to include...
There is an old saying taken as fact among many people of color in this nation. President Obama reminded Morehouse College’s 2013 graduating class about it. Books about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have used it as a way to explain her success. It was even said on Scandal. The saying usually...
Good Life While the lead-up was bloated, unwieldy, and inexorably behind schedule, Kanye West finally released his new album, The Life of Pablo, on Jay Z’s Tidal late Saturday evening. West held a surrealistic spectacle of a listening party at New York’s Madison Square Garden last week, with 1,200...
Shining On The music industry lost one of its brightest stars last week when Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, passed on. He was 74. Emerging from the post Civil Rights malaise with punchy, celebratory, pop-inflected soul, Earth, Wind & Fire became a hugely successful and influential...
