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
Video from two “Beach Party” films from the 1960s feature a teen-aged Stevie Wonder, long before he became the music industry’s “blind seer apocalyptically exposing America’s injustices.” We analyze these videos, which suggest that Wonder’s appearance was part of the films’ problematic...
One of the iconic scenes from 1985’s Back to the Future is the “Enchantment Under the Sea Dance,” where an intrepid, time-traveling Marty McFly needs to successfully reunite his 1950s-era parents to ensure his existence back in, you know, the future. The band is a slow-playing snooze, four black...
Are you ready for it? I’m ready. I’m ready for the red carpet and the ridiculous outfits. I’m ready for James Corden’s opening musical number. I’m ready for the awkward speeches. I’m ready for the snubs. I’m ready for the first musician to mention the President. I’m ready for the performances—A...
With the passing of Prince Rogers Nelson we have lost a singular figure in the history of American music. Many memorials and obituaries have already been published that the outline Prince’s career and his many accomplishments, and it is not my intention to rehearse that same history here. You know,...
It’s been a hard week, dearly beloved. Since news broke of Prince’s passing, the early stages of grief have come quickly–from shock and denial at the thought that a TMZ report of The Artist’s passing could be true to the pain of a reality of a world without more of his brilliance...
The British Invasion remains one of the most relevant music movements of the sixties. British pop and rock ‘n’ roll bands, already sensations in their home country, rose to take the US music scene by storm. This movement was led in 1964 by the prominent migration of ‘Beatlemania’ across the pond....
The 1960’s in America was a decade of political protest, social unrest, and teenage rebellion. Young adults were tired of their parents’ 1950’s cookie-cutter mold ways. They wanted their lives to have real meaning and desired to express their true emotions. They didn’t want their futures...
