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
The entire MusiQology staff wishes our readership a Happy New Year 2017! We are so excited for another year of bringing you our blend of scholarship and criticism, focusing on music of the African Diaspora. Given the political minefield ahead of us, now more than ever we need scholarship that is incisive...
Nothing New is MusiQology’s latest recurring series. Written by Penn PhD candidate Ben DuPriest, this collection of essays debates the utility and danger of proclaiming music “new” (or “old”) within a larger historical and political frame. With a focus on contemporary recordings labeled “jazz”...
Free your mind…and your ass will follow. Such was the guarantee, chanted mystically on Funkadelic’s 1970 LP of the same name. Forty-plus years of records and antics from George Clinton (aka Dr. Funkenstein) later, seeing the Parliament-Funkadelic collective in concert is still an embodied,...
Nothing New is MusiQology’s latest recurring series. Written by Penn PhD candidate Ben DuPriest, this collection of essays debates the utility and danger of proclaiming music “new” (or “old”) within a larger historical and political frame. With a focus on contemporary recordings labeled “jazz”...
I’ll never forget the time I got to dance with Sharon Jones. I was hanging out at the Jackpot Music Hall in Lawrence, Kansas in March 2014. It was the official after party for Sharon’s concert, which had happened earlier that night at Liberty Hall. Dap-Kings bassist and Daptone Records co-founder...
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary 13th is a powerful film that details how the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolished slavery and simultaneously established the pretext for the criminalization and mass incarceration of black and brown Americans. The slavery “loophole”...
Hip-Hop Awards and Wars BET hosted its annual Hip-Hop Awards this past weekend in Atlanta, honoring the game’s bright new faces and living legends. The headlining award went to Snoop Dogg, who received the validating “I Am Hip Hop” award for his lifetime of beats and rhymes. “He mastered the game...
Two weeks ago, Dr. Guy decamped for South Africa to deliver a keynote lecture at the annual congress of the South African Society for Research in Music. Titled “Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African American Music Culture,” the paper discussed how cultural memory, artistic...
Genre moves and stylistic shifts are hard to traverse for many of the most capable artists — you become known for one thing and, usually, one thing only. Such was and was not the case for Bobby Hutcherson, who died earlier this week. He was 75. Hutcherson was singularly known for his work on the vibraphone,...
“Whether I like it or not, for example, and no matter what I call myself, I suppose the only word for me, when the chips are down, is that I am an artist.” Those words, spoken by estimable essayist, author, and critic James Baldwin, speak to the complex role of an artist making creative work […]
