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
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...
Microphone check…One, Two…What Is This? Is this thing still on? With fall beginning and school back in session, we’re getting back into the swing of things at MusiQology.com and working to continue our mission to share the academic study of music in an accessible but relevant and educational...
Featuring new voices from academia and beyond, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to provide contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. This week’s writer, making his MusiQology debut reporting live from Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize award ceremony, is Simon Ghebreyesus. ...
Featuring new voices from academia and beyond, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to provide contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. This week’s writer, making his MusiQology debut, is Martin Edward Connor. What follows is a hypothetical review of Princeton doctoral candidate and composer...
There are a few sounds in the world that just bring me emotional pleasure. The sound of my mother’s voice. A baby’s laugh. Roberta Flack’s first two LPs. John Coltrane’s tenor. Those always seem to do the right thing for me. Yet, there is one sound that produces feelings I struggle to put into...
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”...
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”...
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...
Featuring new voices and contributors, Fresh Wax is MusiQology’s way to feature new contributions from academics, artists, and writers at large. In its debut edition, first-time MusiQology contributor Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn gives his impression of two exhibits at the Philadelphia...
