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
Recently Musiqology spoke with Selma music supervisor, Morgan Rhodes (@MorganRhodes). Selma was her fourth project with director, Ava DuVernay. In this piece she speaks with Musiqology Managing Editor, Fredara M. Hadley. This time, Morgan talks with us about her work on one of our favorites, “The...
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,...
Biographies—whether they are represented in books or films—are necessarily selective and reductive. If they weren’t we’d be subjected to 1000-page books or five-hour long movies on a single subject. And even then it would be impossible to capture all the nuance of a life, especially those...
A lot has been said about Steve McQueen’s poignantly painful film, 12 Years a Slave. And rightfully so. Amid a class of films–such as Django and The Butler– that discuss slavery (or the legacy of it) 12 Years a Slave is an emotionally jarring look at one man’s tragic journey...
Last week Team Musiqology made our way down Interstate 95 to Jatworld, the recording studio of musician and producer Jerry Thompson and located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Although the crew is New York based, it’s important to us keep our Philly roots strong because it is, after all, where the idea...
~For Ken Schropshire Spring is here and baseball and integration are in the air! Everywhere we turn the idea of racial integration—from the recent films Lincoln and The Help to the GOP’s current tactical shift recognizing nonwhites as (gasp) potential voters—is painted primarily as a benevolent...
Landing in JFK and transitioning after a trip to Los Angeles, the land of big dreams and steady paradise, requires a little re-orientation. A twenty-degree shift in temperature measured both in Fahrenheit and attitude—is always an unkind jolt. But after a little pushing and shoving at baggage claim,...
One of the good things about independent films is that they seem to be around at the most convenient times. I recently found myself on a serious “out on the town” in Philadelphia, a jaunt that coincided with the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. The prior week the National...
Black Music Month, Day #17 Scoring film has been a goal of mine for a long time. I routinely teach how music enhances the storyworld of a film and how viewers have been socialized to internalize and unconsciously respond to these musical codes. Hip-hop films and their soundtracks, for example, constitute...
Black Music Month Day #14 FILM REVIEW Rejoice and Shout (2010) Director Don McGlynn Begins June 24 ,2011 Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia Rejoice and Shout opens with a showstopper. A young, adorable brown skin girl sitting in a church pew, lovingly cloistered by many of her mostly female family...
