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
We thought we’d use our platform to signal-boost a wonderfully thoughtful piece of writing on Jay Z, Tidal, and capitalism by Kitanya Harrison. Harrison’s piece, originally published on Medium, explores the news of false streaming data from Tidal. The music industry has a sordid history...
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...
One of hip-hop’s most theoretically rich performance practices is the cypher—a taking-turns display in which emcees alternate delivering freestyle raps, constructing a collective discursive space. While proximate to the “rap battle” tradition, the cypher is not singularly a clash of emcees; instead...
MusiQology is proud to continue its collaborative partnership with The 365 Project, which features 365 days of African American history via the Instagram channel @365DaysofBlackHistory. Each week in September, we’ll be featuring the posts from the previous week of shares, which all fall under...
One of the longstanding (and valid) laments about Black History Month comes with a bit of irony: “Of COURSE February is Black History Month. It’s the shortest one.” While many people understand that black history IS American history, that does not mean that the specific contributions of African...
Shining On The music industry lost one of its brightest stars last week when Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, passed on. He was 74. Emerging from the post Civil Rights malaise with punchy, celebratory, pop-inflected soul, Earth, Wind & Fire became a hugely successful and influential...
The following comprises an overview about my new album, The Colored Waiting Room, which will be released next month. In the coming weeks, we’ll release a series of film vignettes about the project and some of the musicians and production crew involved in the project on various social media platforms...
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Maps (Original Version) Musical improvisation obviously cannot be limited to one particular genre of music; anyone from rappers such as Snoop Dogg to country musicians such as Garth Brooks has the ability to modify the structural components of their work as they see fit. However,...
