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
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...
Taking a moment to discuss figures and texts in art and culture for which we’re thankful has become a welcome tradition here at MusiQology, and we’re thrilled to present the 2018 edition of “MusiQology Gives Thanks.” The last two years when we sat down to write about what we were thankful for,...
From Izzy Lopez, a Penn undergraduate student, comes this new and thoughtful look at Cardi B, the woman who has taken over the music industry and popular culture zeitgeist in tandem. Lopez asks why media narratives of Cardi’s rise wind up feeling so formulaic–arguing that a broader discomfort...
After the positive response to Dr. Guy’s “Nasty Women Don’t Get the Blues (But They Write About Them)” Syllabus last week, we thought we’d share another syllabus, generated as a final project by Managing Editor John Vilanova for the Nasty Women class final project. The syllabus—intended...
One of the exciting things about the academic career path is the chance to plot a new course forward every September and January. Each semester gives professors the opportunity to design new syllabi–fourteen weeks of readings and discussions follow, organized around a specific topic or theme....
Nicki Minaj, the biggest selling woman hip hop artist on the planet, recently allowed New York Times journalist, Vanessa Grigoriadis, into her world. The resulting conversation is the voice of a woman who has traveled this fame road long enough to understand where the minefields are, how to avoid them,...
Lysa Cooper (@LysaCooper) is a veteran stylist who has helped give Black popular music its visual identity by working with megastars such as Mary J. Blige and Beyoncé. Despite her success, she (literally) strips down as she discusses a wide range of subjects including how difficult it was to convince...
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...
The talk of this past Summer was Kara Walker’s provocative art installation in Brooklyn entitled, “A Subtley: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion...
Lately Lincoln University of Pennsylvania has been in the news for the wrong reason. Its president. University President, Robert Jennings, went on a completely inappropriate and inflammatory diatribe about long dresses, “respectable” women, and predatory black men. The discussion was a mess...
