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
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”...
Recently, we told you about a set of new and exciting releases from our imprint, The MusiQ Department, from our artists Vince Anthony and Bridget Ramsey. We’re tremendously honored to highlight another release from Bridget Ramsey, the warm, dynamic, Philly-centered music video for her interpretation...
There’s often a fine line to walk between pathology and purpose when it comes to writing about issues of race and anti-black racism. Responsible writers (particularly non-black allies) are charged with speaking to the realities of inequity and mistreatment without basking in the lurid details of enslavement...
Shining On The music industry lost one of its brightest stars last week when Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, passed on. He was 74. Emerging from the post Civil Rights malaise with punchy, celebratory, pop-inflected soul, Earth, Wind & Fire became a hugely successful and influential...
A few weeks ago the internet was ablaze with the music video for “Never Catch Me” by Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. The stunningly beautiful, and equally haunting, video, directed by famed Hiro Murai, is a meditation on childhood, death, and resurrection. In his analysis Mark Anthony Neal...
Starbucks on Mars The following is a summary of how I introduced my Spring 2013 History of American Music course. Class is in session–GR I always find it difficult to begin a class. Where does one start, particularly in a course that covers all of the historical territory of something called...
~for Valerie Bridgeman, preacher, scholar, hugger I know I’m a little late with this, but June is Black Music Month, 2012. I’ll be posting briefly and irregularly about various topics that I’m working out. I’m going to try to keep it on the analytical side; sometimes it will be just questions...
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...
