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MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
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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!
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The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
In an age of virality, the surprise album release has become an interesting industrial tactic for artists looking to avoid the critical oversight of middle management and seize the public spotlight. With the release of George Clinton and Parliament’s Medicaid Fraud Dog, the group’s first release...
Dr. Guthrie Ramsey and Dr. Guy’s MusiQology are very proud to announce the launch of a new podcast series on music, race, and the creative arts, set to debut with its first episode on Monday, April 2. The podcast, hosted by Dr. Ramsey and featuring a wide array of musicians, artists, and scholars,...
Despite a show filled with conscious and powerful protest moments, the GRAMMY Awards themselves remain conservatively oriented towards an objective ideal of musical excellence. One of the most talked-about moments during last night’s GRAMMY Awards telecast came during a James Corden-led bit to determine...
This is the final track of first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
This is the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification of concepts...
This is the second track of the first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
For many reasons, the announcement of the 2018 GRAMMY Awards nominations is a “good” result. The “Big Three” categories—Song, Record, and Album of the Year—are blacker than any time in recent memory, with 13 of the 15 total nominations (five per category) going to non-white artists. For the first...
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...
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...
