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 prestigious Harvard Business School is offering a course on the “Business of Being Beyoncé.” If one wants to examine the methods of building global multimedia empire there is no one better to analyze than Queen Bey herself. Now, HBS isn’t the first institution to add the pop star...
The following is a webisode featuring bonus material from Down the Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story. Please visit www.FenderRhodesStory.com to order a copy of this historic documentary, brought to life through stories and performances from a remarkable cast of music notables. With an insider’s look,...
The following is an overview of lecture notes from my History of American music course this semester. -Editor Her fans were delighted to see Beyoncé, The Bootylicious, our reigning queen of American pop, step to the podium and offer an anticipated rendition of the National Anthem at Barack Obama’s...
One of the most fascinating things about teaching music history is encouraging students to experience the past and how they perceive their present—as exploding with sounds that circulate powerful ideas about the world, seen and unseen. For me, the best way to achieve this is to begin the course by showing...
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...
Perfect vibrato. (Deceivingly) effortless diaphragmic support. Excellent way of “crowding” the cadences with “just enough” sonic information before landing coyly in the next structural part of the song. Widest of ranges: hardly ever “bailed out” by flipping into falsetto....
Black Music Month Day #13 Now that Dirk and the Boys from Texas have secured their franchise’s first championship last night, it might be fun to go back to the vault and think about a classic moment in which the NBA and music history intersected provocatively. Before game three of the 2005 NBA Finals,...
Black Music Month Day #11 Almost two years ago, on the 25thof June, during Black Music Month, the world said a very sad goodbye to Michael Joseph Jackson, who had passed away too soon. Although he became a pop star, he was also considered larger than any generic label or marketing category because...
I can’t fully explain the power of Chuck D’s words from more than twenty years ago, that “Rap music is CNN for black America,” exerted on me. I became aware of them long after the moment in which they were initially uttered, and they have now resurfaced in my mind long after I first read […]
Beatlemania: “a term that originated during the 1960s to describe the intense fan frenzy directed towards The Beatles during the early years of their success, particularly by teenage girls”. Beatlemania was especially characterized by intense levels of hysteria from adoring fans at both concerts...
