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
This is the third track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
This is the second track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
This is the first track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
For many reasons, the announcement of the 2018 GRAMMY Awards nominations is a “good” result. The “Big Three” categories—Song, Record, and Album of the Year—are blacker than any time in recent memory, with 13 of the 15 total nominations (five per category) going to non-white artists. For the first...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the preeminent black intellectual of our time, is a scholar whose work engages in many registers. I say this not only because of his wide profile—from the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to the James Baldwin-esque Between the World and Me—but also because his work is inflected...
Mixed media is the future, but it is also the past. Our memories have sound, vision, smell, taste. A good recording tells you the temperature of the room, the mood of the singer, and the response of the crowd. Video archives lend rhythm and subjectivity to the written word. In these times, our media...
By now, you’ve probably heard that Eminem delivered a blistering freestyle during Tuesday’s BET Hip Hop Awards show, skewering Donald Trump, the many-times-accused sexual abuser and white supremacist who sits in the Oval Office thanks in no small part to foreign meddling, white racial resentment,...
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...
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...
Honestly, I’m weary of conversations. The disappointment comes less from the exhausted topics (gender, race, etc.) and more from my community’s lack of nuance on such themes. Folk involved are crafty with talking at, over, about, and/ or through people, but haven’t acknowledged the need for listening...
