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...
Microphone check…One, Two…What Is This? Is this thing still on? With fall beginning and school back in session, we’re getting back into the swing of things at MusiQology.com and working to continue our mission to share the academic study of music in an accessible but relevant and educational...
“I can hear the even breathing that creates passages to dreams,” Claudia Rankine writes in Citizen, her renowned 2014 meditation on racism and its effect on the lives and existences of people of color. “And yes, I want to interrupt to tell him her us you me I don’t know how to end what doesn’t...
Honestly, I’m weary of conversations. The disappointment comes less from the exhausted topics (gender, race, etc.) and more from my community’s lack of nuance on such themes. Folk involved are crafty with talking at, over, about, and/ or through people, but haven’t acknowledged the need for listening...
After the positive response to Dr. Guy’s “Nasty Women Don’t Get the Blues (But They Write About Them)” Syllabus last week, we thought we’d share another syllabus, generated as a final project by Managing Editor John Vilanova for the Nasty Women class final project. The syllabus—intended...
Lecture 2: Exceptional Errors Something was terribly wrong among the black Methodists in the early 19th century. In 1819, John F. Watson, a disapproving minister, published a diatribe called Methodist Error: Or Friendly Christian Advice to those Methodists Who Indulge in Extravagant Emotions and Bodily...
Together with my course “Jazz Speaks for Life,” I’m also teaching “The Big Sea: An Introduction to Africana Studies.” This course provides an introduction to the field of Africana Studies and what has marked its distinctive and continuous development as a discipline separate from, but inextricably...
