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
Morgan Rhodes is a lot of things: Music lover. Music fan. DJ of the soulful underground. And Ava DuVernay’s perennial music supervisor. Last week we celebrated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. We were glad to see so many folks take the time to check out Ava DuVernay’s latest theatrical release,...
Join Guthrie Ramsey and the Musiqology family at the Blue Note April 24th! Tickets available here.
Fifty years ago on December 9, 1964, the John Coltrane quartet recorded A Love Supreme, a jazz masterwork recognized as one of the greatest albums in history. HuffPost Live invited Guthrie Ramsey, Cornel West, Archie Shepp, Stanley Crouch, and Ashley Khan to discuss Coltrane and the enduring impact of A...
For David Leonard When the word spread that ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott had passed away at 49 this weekend, tributes flooded the airwaves and social media. Writer Michael Wilbon tweeted that he’d “changed the way we talked about sports, and in doing so put himself on ESPN’s Mount Rushmore.”...
We’re excited to anticipate this Holiday season with a special gift to all our readers at Musiqology.com. Please join us in celebrating our next big moves as we launch the 3.0 version of our website, featuring a stunning new look, a new advisory board, a new roster of contributors, and an expanded...
Tis the season for annual performances of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” We’re excited that American Ballet Theater’s principal ballerina, Misty Copeland, is starring in this year’s production. The production runs from December 12-21st at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera...
In Ethnomusicology Review, Musiqology Editor in Chief, Guthrie P. Ramsey, discusses the challenges of extending discourse beyond the academy and into the social media and pop culture realms. He says, But there were challenges to my new outlook and interest. I needed to appreciate that the traditional...
We’re excited that the official trailer for the highly anticipated film, Selma, is finally out! We’re even more excited that Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere and The Door) directed it and friend of Musiqology, Jason Moran, scored it. Be sure to see it when it reaches theaters on January,...
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed musician, Marc Ribot, proclaims that streaming services such as Spotify and MOG are the future and that the success of these services means that independent artists can no longer make a sustainable living selling their music. He explains, Spotify likes to say that they...
Next Semester’s Course Descriptions. If you see me walking down the street with a tick, here’s why. Freshmen Seminar That’s My Song!: Musical Genre as Social Contract Music in American history has been fundamental to identity formation because, as one scholar notes, it comprises “the...
