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
It’s graduation week at universities across the country, so we thought we’d use this space to do two very important things. The first, of course, is to CONGRATULATE the recent graduates from our home, the University of Pennsylvania, but also the various other institutes of higher learning across...
This Thursday, February 22, our fearless leader Dr. Guthrie Ramsey will deliver the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity. The lecture will be held at 5:00PM at the Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and is free to the public. We sat down with Guy to discuss the lecture,...
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African-American Music Thursday, February 22, 2018, 5:00 pm Reception to Follow Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street Free & Open to the Public This lecture...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s semi-regular news round-up. We curate a selection of relevant news items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and contextualizing the moments within a broader conversation. In some cases, we’ll be drawing your attention to news...
“It took twenty years, and some persuasion, before I agreed to write How I Became Hettie Jones, my memoir of that sixties bohemia,” Hettie Jones, the prolific force and self-effacing matriarch of the MusiQology family writes in Love, H, a new book reflecting on her own personal history through letters...
We thought the conversation in this week’s New York Times between critic Jon Caramanica, Roots drummer Questlove, and our colleague Salamishah Tillet — on the move of rap into mainstream television and film — was worth reprinting in full, both to draw attention to the piece and to connect...
“I can hear the even breathing that creates passages to dreams,” Claudia Rankine writes in Citizen, her renowned 2014 meditation on racism and its effect on the lives and existences of people of color. “And yes, I want to interrupt to tell him her us you me I don’t know how to end what doesn’t...
“So I made it to Harvard,” Rihanna said, before flipping her hair as the crowd cheered. This was not the usual public appearance for the Barbadian pop star, who found herself on stage earlier this week at Harvard University to accept the school’s Humanitarian of the Year Award. Rihanna’s story...
On Friday, October 28, Dr. Guy hosted a public performance and conversation with a panel of local artists at the ICA titled “Cross Relations: Experimentation and the Arts. Setting their work in conversation with other artists and each other, Guy and the panel created a fertile space for discourse...
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...
