Musicologist and pianist Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., received his Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and is currently Associate Professor of Music History in the music department at the University of Pennsylvania. Ramsey has also recently taught at both Harvard and Princeton. He specializes in African-American and American music, jazz, cultural studies, popular music, film studies, and historiography.

Ramsey is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (University of California Press, 2003), which was named outstanding book of the year by IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music). Ramsey is currently completing two important works: In Walked Bud: Earl Bud Powell and the Modern Jazz Challenge - a study of jazz pianist Bud Powell - and Curtis Mayfield: Quiet Giant of Soul. Ramsey was a Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow at Dartmouth College in 1993, a DuBois Institute Fellow at Harvard University in 1996, and taught at Tufts University from 1994-1998. In 2001 he received the Irving Lowens Award for best article from the Society for American Music for "Who Hears Here? Black Music, Critical Bias, and the Musicological Skintrade." His work has been published in Black Music Research Journal, The Musical Quarterly, Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Black Scholar, Callaloo, American Music, American Quarterly, Journal of the American Musicological Society, The New York Times and The Village Voice.

His band Dr. Guy's MusiQologY has performed for audiences in South America, New York, the University of Pennsylvania, the Kimmel Center, and in Philadelphia venues such as Zanzibar Blue and Gloria's Seafood House. Ramsey composes and arranges all of MusiQologY's music, which moves beyond the traditional jazz idiom, experimenting with R&B, Latin, Hip Hop fusions. Their first CD, Why the Q? was released in Spring, 2007.