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
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...
While every day is a celebration of African American and Afro-Diasporic music here at MusiQology, the White House once again declared June to be the month where the nation recognizes the contributions of black artists from Bud Powell to Beyoncé and everyone in between. This month, as every month, we renew...
Managing Editor John Vilanova spent the better part of this past June in Tokyo researching the trade of vintage reggae vinyl and the current state of Jamaica-Japan musical relations. His research took him to a dozen record stores strewn throughout Tokyo and a soundclash that lasted past 5AM. Reggae...
A Live Supreme is MusiQology’s space for live concert and performance reviews. In addition to reporting on the music itself, we look to situate the shows within a broader conversation by contextualizing, historicizing, and theorizing the performances and artists. One of the alluring things...
Black Music Month, Day #10 Rape is an assaulting, horrible act of violence against females and males, compelling a non-consenting victim into sexual acts against their will for which there is no excuse or reasonable explanation. So here’s how I’ve been spending my time in these lazy, hazy days of summer:...
Reggae music developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s with stylistic origins in rocksteady and ska. When reggae music started in the 1960s, it was mostly thought of as folk music. This formed a strong sense of community based on common ethnic backgrounds and life experiences. Toots & the Maytals...
The castle- ready sand, the pleasurably warm temperature and the pure infinite blue oceans forging a stunning view of the horizon can only be a prototype for the Caribbean. With breath taking natural beauty of the land can only have inhabitants who are equally as breath-taking, with cool brown skin...
What do you think of when you hear the words “Hasidic Jew?” Probably the last thing to come to mind would be rapper. But that is exactly what Matthew Paul Miller, better known as Matisyahu, epitomizes. By blending traditional Jewish themes with reggae, rock, beat box, and hip-hop, Matisyahu defies...
