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MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
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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!
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A Live Supreme is MusiQology’s space for live concert and performance reviews. In addition to reporting on the music itself, we look to situate the shows within a broader conversation by contextualizing, historicizing, and theorizing the performances and artists. One of the alluring things...
Two weeks ago, Dr. Guy decamped for South Africa to deliver a keynote lecture at the annual congress of the South African Society for Research in Music. Titled “Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African American Music Culture,” the paper discussed how cultural memory, artistic...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running each week, we curate a selection of relevant items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and spin when it makes sense. With any luck, you’ll be able to spend a little less time browsing the web for what...
Our fearless leader/editor in chief, Guthrie Ramsey (@DrGuyMusiqology), is headed to Cuba! While we await his travelogue, check out a short documentary on another Philly representatives visit to the island nation that helped transform jazz, hip hop, and gave us Queen Célia Cruz!
By Salim Washington, PhD I had the distinct pleasure of playing with and listening to the wonderful pianist, Nduduzo Makhatini here in Durban at his double CD launch at the BAT Centre. Nduduzo is this year’s Standard Bank Artist of the Year, a well deserved honor. For those of you stateside, this...
On November 5th the sublimly talented, Angélique Kidjo took to Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to one of her inspirations, the incomparable Miriam Makeba. It was a special night that included host, Whoopi Goldberg, and singer/musician, Laura Mvula. Jon Pereles sums up the experience, It was by no means...
I’ll admit it. Saying goodbye to summer’s reprieve is always a shock to the system, but as a hopeless academic, the fall has always been a great time of year. It means a new academic startup, meeting new students, new materials to learn and teach, and, always, always a fresh outlook on familiar...
Live at the Blue Note, NYC October 22, 2012, 8pm Imani Uzuri, vocals Christian Ver Halen, acoustic guitar Amali Premawardhana, cello Todd Isler, world percussion Kaoru Watanabe, Japanese Shinobue flute Special guests: Camilla Celin, sarod Jay Ghandi, bansuri flute Courtney Bryan, piano Although it’s...
In exploring the infinite realms of the Internet, we can explore far-reaching corners of the globe. I feel that the best way to remotely explore a culture is through its music, and people often discourse about world music through the languages of folk, mass, and art discourse. One example I found...
