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
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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
Black Music Month, Day #22 In a stunning article titled “Revelations,” journalist Kelefa Sanneh detailed the scandal surrounding contemporary gospel artist Tonéx’s (b. Anthony Charles Williams II) coming out as a gay man in a 2009 interview. The prolific singer/songwriter whose body of expansive...
Black Music Month, Day #20 Contemporary gospel, a sub-style of the black gospel music genre, has its roots in the style’s insatiable proclivity for absorbing and re-contextualizing the conventions of multiple genres. One can observe this cross traffic from the very beginnings of gospel’s recognized...
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...
Black Music Month, Day 8 Nina Simone’s performance of the spiritual “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” enjoys several aesthetic and ideological tributaries that contribute to its power, its riveting grip on listeners (check out the youtube comments). Simone’s alto voice combines with her own piano...
Black Music Month, Day #7 Flash of the Spirit is about visual and philosophic streams of creativity and imagination, running parallel to the massive musical and choreographic modalities that connect black persons of the western hemisphere, as well as the millions of European and Asian people attracted...
Black Music Month Day #2: Let’s give the first ladies of gospel genius, The Clark Sisters, some love. From 1997, this is actually a remix of one of Twinkie’s chestnuts from back in the day. The form is tricky—two long sections that sound like two separate verses (Twinkie was always musically...
Things to see, hear, and read in ’11, Part 2 In the lobby of Shutters, a hotel on the beach in Santa Monica, I walked passed an empty drum set and grand piano and entered the dining room without too much of a second thought. Someone had recommended this spot to enjoy a special meal […]
Last week was not only my time to wind up my fall classes. (Yes!) It was also a great time to get out on the town and enjoy an eclectic mix of wintertime musicking in Philly. Although one hears many laments about what the music scene here (and everywhere, it seems) lacks, if you’re persistent […]
When you say blues, many people think of an historical genre of the American past. In his 1963 classic book Blues People, a young, and then uncontroversial, LeRoi Jones wrote so eloquently about the blues aesthetic in black vernacular music that the book is used almost as a “passport to adventure”...
Stevie Wonder – Superstition The music that we hear now will be the basis of the music that we will be listening to twenty years from now. Musical genres are constantly evolving from and influencing one another. This trend is evident simply by examining the roots of the musical genres that...
