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’re excited about the debut screening of Musiqology’s first documentary, Amazing: The Tests and Triumphs of Bud Powell at the Black Star Film Festival on Saturday, August, 1st at 2:40pm. “Amazing: The Tests and Triumph of Bud Powell” will be shown with a collection of shorts showcasing...
Next Semester’s Course Descriptions. If you see me walking down the street with a tick, here’s why. Freshmen Seminar That’s My Song!: Musical Genre as Social Contract Music in American history has been fundamental to identity formation because, as one scholar notes, it comprises “the...
Nate Chinen’s New York Times feature on pianist, composer and educator this past week focused on jazz pianist Vijay Iyer’s latest recording, one that the author thought “defied category.” Published under the “Pop” section, the article discusses Iyer’s ECM label debut. I like artists...
Last week Team Musiqology made our way down Interstate 95 to Jatworld, the recording studio of musician and producer Jerry Thompson and located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Although the crew is New York based, it’s important to us keep our Philly roots strong because it is, after all, where the idea...
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...
