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
This Wednesday, May 1, Dr. Guy’s MusiQology returns to the stage as part of a fundraiser for One Art Community Center, a local arts and community space that uses creative art for personal and social healing. Dr. Guy—alongside MusiQ Department artists Vince Anthony and Bridget Ramsey and a group of special...
Taking a moment to discuss figures and texts in art and culture for which we’re thankful has become a welcome tradition here at MusiQology, and we’re thrilled to present the 2018 edition of “MusiQology Gives Thanks.” The last two years when we sat down to write about what we were thankful for,...
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,...
For a recent lecture, Managing Editor John Vilanova put together a performance of a new style of academic presentation titled “critical karaoke.” The premise—first introduced by Joshua Clover at Seattle’s Experience Music Project POP Conference—was simple: talk about a song for the length of the song...
“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...
“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...
Fusing genres in musical performance is a bit like claims of interdisciplinarity in academia: A trendy name and an inspiring idea where the sum of the parts seldom produces a greater whole. Jazz fusion, blending progressive rock with jazz, was oftentimes sublime but often could be accused of cultural...
Mount Airy-bred poet Ursula Rucker, who will take the stage with Dr. Guy’s MusiQology this weekend for two shows at South on North Broad on Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3, is perhaps best-known for a multimedia performance that combines music with her poetics. In 1995, she lent her voice to the first...
For me, it started with two chords: a D-flat triad that moves to an E-flat half diminished with an A in the bass that opens “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore.” Growing up in the Midwest, I knew of Prince, of course, but came comparatively late to his music. But once I heard […]
