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
This Wednesday, May 1, Dr. Guy’s MusiQology returns to the stage as part of a fundraiser for One Art Community Center, a local arts and community space that uses creative art for personal and social healing. Dr. Guy—alongside MusiQ Department artists Vince Anthony and Bridget Ramsey and a group of special...
MusiQology’s Shakira King reflects on the deep roots of optimism that set Smino’s trap apart. “Smino’s music is anti-first impressions,” my friend and culture commentator Tirhakah Love said in a recent tweet. It’s trap music, but not like the kind that has taken over the radio and the culture...
By now, you’ve probably heard that Eminem delivered a blistering freestyle during Tuesday’s BET Hip Hop Awards show, skewering Donald Trump, the many-times-accused sexual abuser and white supremacist who sits in the Oval Office thanks in no small part to foreign meddling, white racial resentment,...
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...
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary 13th is a powerful film that details how the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolished slavery and simultaneously established the pretext for the criminalization and mass incarceration of black and brown Americans. The slavery “loophole”...
One of Dr. Guy’s special guests for his upcoming The Poets & A Song is Hettie Jones. Ms. Jones is a hugely influential figure and prolific writer whose memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, is a seminal text for understanding the complexities of the Civil Rights Era. Her latest, a collection of letters...
Good Life While the lead-up was bloated, unwieldy, and inexorably behind schedule, Kanye West finally released his new album, The Life of Pablo, on Jay Z’s Tidal late Saturday evening. West held a surrealistic spectacle of a listening party at New York’s Madison Square Garden last week, with 1,200...
We at Musiqology.com mourn with the people of Charleston, South Carolina as they try to heal after this week’s horrific church massacre. We remain dedicated to the struggle of equality and peace, and we unite with others around the globe who share this commitment. We must overcome. We must...
