Description:

This presentation will discuss some of the issues surrounding the work of Ramsey's “Musiqology” projects and will feature a performance of original music and a mediation on the role of live music making, new media and scholarship in the study of African American music.

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.  A widely published writer, he is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (University of California Press, 2003). It was named outstanding book of the year by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Ramsey is a pianist, composer and arranger for his Philadelphia-based band, Dr. Guy’s MusiQology.  In 2007 the group released a CD titled Y the Q? and in 2012 he released The Colored Waiting Room. The sextet produces original music in a sound blending jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, neo-soul, and classical. Ramsey is the founder and editor of the popular blog, Musiqology.com, which is read around the world and boasts more than 65,000 views.

Free & open to the public, all ages welcome
To RSVP (highly recommended), email bai@northwestern.edu
bai.northwestern.edu