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
This week, Dr. Guy will be presenting two lectures as the scholar-in-residence at Baylor University. These events are free and open to the public. Monday, September 26 (6PM CENTRAL), Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church: “Y’all Like That?: Contemporary Gospel Music and the Sacred-Secular...
Black Messiah, Part 1 by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. These are, in fact, the times that try (wo)men’s souls. But there’s always “a word.” I came across this way of talking about weary days and keeping hope through my affiliation with black Methodists, Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the late 20th...
That Professor Dorsey’s “Precious Lord,” a song that one could call (in Prof. Jennifer C. Lena’s words) a “genre ideal” of gospel, is, today, the site of an industry vs. fans controversy is pretty damn cool. We have access to instant ethnography in social media. So hot reactions...
Musiqology would like to take the time to recognize the passing of a true legend, Andrae Crouch. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, in the 1970s Crouch was a contemporary of gospel greats such as the Hawkins family. His unique gospel sound and his work with gospel ensembles helped usher in a new […]
Despite the woes that have kept the great city of Detroit in the news lately, Detroit continues to remind the world that since the post-War II era, it has been a major source of musical inspiration and artistic stability. Gospel music has been an especially fertile style for this “Up-South” city. ...
During the next few weeks I’ll be posting about the course I’m teaching on African American music. Designed as a survey, it will trace developments from slavery to the present for a mix of music majors and non-majors. The course begins with some philosophical issues about black music making in the United...
For Rev. Leslie Callahan, scholar, teacher, preacher Part 1. For those of you familiar with the pageantry of charismatic African American churches, you might recognize that the clip of video I’ll discuss over the next couple of postings was probably recorded on December 31, 1997. Black Pentecostalism...
Part 3–toward inspiration, Salamishah Tillet and Mark Anthony Neal In my previous two posts on the Robert Glasper CD Black Radio (Blue Note) I laid out some broad ways to think about sound organization in the project, the notion of branding in today’s music as well as some ideas about how we can begin...
