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
We’re still reeling in the MusiQology orbit over the premature passing of trumpeter and boundary-crosser Roy Hargrove. MusiQology band member and director of the Penn Music Department’s jazz combos Matthew Clayton combines an analysis of Hargrove’s impact with personal remembrances as a fellow...
In the wake of Nancy Wilson’s sad passing this past week at the age of 81, Dr. Guy discusses the iconic singer’s cultural importance, style, and sound. After a lifelong listening relationship culminating with the recent release of Bridget Ramsey’s “Save Your Love for Me”...
To make jazz in at the turn of the century was and is a weighing—of genealogical tradition and new-school vitality; of fealty to the elders and a desire to have one’s voice heard; between the conservatory and the club. Roy Hargrove, who passed away over the weekend at the too-young age of 49, was a […]
What songs have gotten stuck in your head because you feel like they’re speaking directly to you? Read our article, “After Laughter,” Trauma, and Finding Comfort in an Earworm” and help us construct our collaborative playlist. Earlier this week, we published a hybrid personal essay/observation...
Sometimes a song sticks in your head for days or weeks or months, reverberating around your skull and senses. This phenomenon—which goes by many names including “sticky music,” “Involuntary Musical Imagery,” and “earworm,” the most common usage—has been the subject of a number of rigorous...
When one thinks of the lush instrumentals and funk gestures that characterized the vibrant moment in our native city’s history that came to be known as Philadelphia Soul, two names come to mind. There’s Gamble. There’s Huff. Their Philadelphia International Records, with acts like The O’Jays,...
The soul singer Charles Bradley died from liver cancer on September 23 at the age of 68. His debut album, No Time for Dreaming, was not released until 2011, when he was 63 years old. These are probably the two most noted facts about Charles Bradley. Despite the fact that most only knew him during […]
While every day is a celebration of African American and Afro-Diasporic music here at MusiQology, the White House once again declared June to be the month where the nation recognizes the contributions of black artists from Bud Powell to Beyoncé and everyone in between. This month, as every month, we renew...
One of the iconic scenes from 1985’s Back to the Future is the “Enchantment Under the Sea Dance,” where an intrepid, time-traveling Marty McFly needs to successfully reunite his 1950s-era parents to ensure his existence back in, you know, the future. The band is a slow-playing snooze, four black...
“It took only 20 seconds for Clyde Stubblefield to drum his way to immortality.” That lede, from The New York Times obituary for Stubblefield, who died on February 18 at the age of 74, was so perfect a summation of Stubblefield’s impact that we’ve taken a little creative liberty here,...
