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
Set within the milieu of the HBCU experience, Knowles’s latest masterwork captures the complexity of contemporary blackness through film, a medium that has always crystallized black representational possibility for better or worse. About halfway through Homecoming, Beyoncé Knowles’s triumphant new Netflix...
It’s been more than a month since Marvel Studios’ Black Panther took theaters by storm, riding a wave of excitement and discourse built by #BlackTwitter and black Americans’ long-gestating readiness to see themselves represented on screen despite Hollywood’s ill-conceived fears about their global...
16 Bars is a 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. A sign of a rapper’s ability is his or […]
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”...
For Miles Davis, a man whose musical performances and personal reality often stretched far beyond the bounds of expectation, two minutes (or two hours, even) to tell his story seems like it would never do him justice. But for now, the former will have to do with the release of the first trailer for Miles...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running early 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...
Recently Penn Magazine sat down with Guthrie Ramsey to discuss the box office smash hit, Straight Outta Compton. The conversation covered everything from the Reaganomics to the halo effect of memoirs. Check out our excerpt here and then read the full interview over at Penn Mag. Blake Cole: N.W.A is famous...
Last week I attended the 4th annual BlackStar Film Festival, an important Philadelphia platform for emerging and experienced independent filmmakers. Founded byits artistic director, Maori Karmael Holmes, the film festival has grown steadily in prestige, becoming a summer destination for serious and curious...
I’m rarely “jazz sensitive,” but even I thought that jazz culture took a beating in this Grammy-winning film. I remember upright bass players getting a few calluses from practicing to much. In this film, the protagonist, an emotionally troubled drummer, actually practices until he bled...
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,...
