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
J. Michael Harrison is this week’s guest on The MusiQology Podcast, taking Dr. Guy and the listener through the city’s musical history, touching on activism and the centrality of musical cultures to Philadelphia life. We asked him to give our readers an overview of Philly jazz’s past, present,...
Laurin Talese is the first guest of the new MusiQology Podcast hosted by Dr. Guy. Their episode, which launched Monday, April 2, featured the two musicians in conversation around influences, histories, and expertise. The MusiQology Podcast is available at the following podcast platforms: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-musiqology-podcast/id1366597827...
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...
Last year at this time, despite what felt like a collective bottom for our nation and our world, we made sure to carve out space to reflect and express our thankfulness—to friends, colleagues, and creators who take turns keeping us grounded and helping us soar. It’s been twelve agonizing months since...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the preeminent black intellectual of our time, is a scholar whose work engages in many registers. I say this not only because of his wide profile—from the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to the James Baldwin-esque Between the World and Me—but also because his work is inflected...
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,...
“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...
