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
The GRAMMYs, music’s self-declared “greatest night” will return to TV screens this weekend, airing Sunday on CBS at 8PM. MusiQology managing editor John Vilanova, who’s been hard at work on a PhD dissertation that examines the awards’ record on race throughout their sixty-year history,...
In January of this year, Nielsen announced that, for the first time, R&B/hip-hop had become the most-consumed genre of music among U.S. consumers, evidence to back up what the radio, the club, and the blogosphere had been telling us for quite some time: Hip-hop was not outsider music on the music...
This is the third track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
For many reasons, the announcement of the 2018 GRAMMY Awards nominations is a “good” result. The “Big Three” categories—Song, Record, and Album of the Year—are blacker than any time in recent memory, with 13 of the 15 total nominations (five per category) going to non-white artists. For the first...
Honestly, I’m weary of conversations. The disappointment comes less from the exhausted topics (gender, race, etc.) and more from my community’s lack of nuance on such themes. Folk involved are crafty with talking at, over, about, and/ or through people, but haven’t acknowledged the need for listening...
While it’s been more than a week since the 2017 GRAMMY Awards, we here at MusiQology are still thinking deeply about the show’s results and their broader significance. What do the GRAMMYs tell us about the times in which they are occurring? Among the various award categories, there is a noteworthy...
16 Bars is a recurring column at MusiQology. When we want to get a sense of the discourse around a particular pop culture moment or event, we search the web, highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse. A sign of a rapper’s ability is his or […]
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary 13th is a powerful film that details how the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolished slavery and simultaneously established the pretext for the criminalization and mass incarceration of black and brown Americans. The slavery “loophole”...
Afeni Shakur, mother to the rapper Tupac Shakur, died the evening of Monday, May 2. She was 69 years old. Before gangsta rap and any eyez were on her son, Afeni Shakur (nee Alice Fay Williams) joined the Black Panther movement in 1964 while living in the Bronx. She began to write articles for […]
In advance of this weekend’s Academy Awards broadcast, a group of scholars, students, and working professionals assembled at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania for a panel discussion on Media, Race, and the Oscars Controversy after the Academy failed to include...
