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Since Beyonc\u00e9 announced on Super Bowl Sunday that she\u2019d be releasing \u201cact ii<\/a>,\u201d the album now known as Cowboy Carter<\/em>, conversations about the role of Black artists in mainstream country have exploded on social media, and in large media outlets such as\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Good Morning America<\/em><\/a>, Teen Vogue<\/em><\/a>, Time<\/em><\/a>, and Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. In The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, musician and historian Rhiannon Giddens eloquently makes the case for the centrality of Black artists in country music, while also articulating the myths and slurs that have kept Black performers and fans on the margins.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this moment, after 100 years of erasure, false narratives, and racism built into the country industry, it\u2019s important to shine a light on the Black co-creation of country music\u2014and creation is the correct word, not influence,\u201d Giddens writes. \u201cBlack musicians, along with their working-class white counterparts, were active participants and creators, not empty vessels with good rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes these myths have been weaponized violently. Black country veterans, including Linda Martell<\/a>, Charley Pride, and Darius Rucker<\/a> have shared their experiences performing in country music spaces, including the racial slurs and threats directed at them. For example, in his 1994 memoir, Pride writes about touring the U.S. South in the late 1960s, where some of the concert venues he played received bomb threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As both a Black fan and writer of country music criticism, I\u2019ve thought twice about bringing my child to a country music festival or concert with me, out of\u00a0fear she might witness or be the target of another fan\u2019s violence. But while criticisms of Beyonc\u00e9 have sometimes gotten ugly (John Schneider<\/a>\u2019s dehumanizing comparison of\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9 to a dog peeing against a tree to mark her territory is one particularly vivid example), in the wake of Cowboy Carter<\/em>, listeners who might not have heard their stories told in mainstream country music are now looking deeper<\/a> into the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black country artists, including Tanner Adell, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, Willie Jones, Linda Martell, Brittney Spencer, and Shaboozey, who all appear on Cowboy Carter<\/em>, have seen an uptick in new downloads<\/a> and overall listenership on streaming services. Perhaps we could dub this the \u201cBeyonc\u00e9 Effect,\u201d a wave that lifts all who surround her, but Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s impact goes beyond opening the door wider for a handful of Black country artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cowboy Carter<\/em> also opens up conversations about Black creativity and imaginative freedom within country music and beyond, planting the seeds for deeper social change. On the album, Beyonc\u00e9 cites and performs an expansive history of Black musical creativity, while also bringing her own unique energy and style. Throughout the album, Beyonc\u00e9 channels Ray Charles\u2019 showmanship and swinging reinterpretations that made his 1962 album, \u201cModern Sounds in Country and Western Music,\u201d a game changer<\/a> in the country genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can especially hear her power to freshly reinterpret classics on her version of \u201cJolene.\u201d We get the sunny optimism of Charley Pride\u2019s \u201cKiss an Angel Good Morning,\u201d on \u201cBodyguard,\u201d though it\u2019s tweaked for modern times. (She even sings to her lover, \u201cI could be your bodyguard\/ Please let me be your Kevlar (Huh)\/ Baby, let me be your lifeguard\/ Would you let me ride shotgun?\u201d) On \u201c16 Carriages,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 tells a story of lost innocence and sacrifice as a young performer, echoing themes present in Allison Russell\u2019s \u201cNight Flyer,\u201d \u201cPersephone,\u201d and other songs about survival that appear on her 2021 album, \u201cOutside Child.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On her tender lullaby \u201cProtector,\u201d performed with her daughter Rumi, Beyonc\u00e9 promises to nurture her daughter\u2019s light: \u201cEven though I know someday you\u2019re gonna shine on your own\/ I will be your projector.\u201d I hear a resonance with Black country songwriter Alice Randall\u2019s wonderful \u201cMy Dream,\u201d performed by Valerie June and included on the 2024 album, \u201cMy Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We get the muscular country rock spirit of Tina Turner\u2019s \u201cNutbush City Limits\u201d (especially the live performance<\/a> of the song) on records like \u201cYa Ya\u201d and \u201cTexas Hold \u2018Em.\u201d (I can imagine these songs as production numbers in the style of Tina Turner and Beyonc\u00e9 herself, seeing as Beyonc\u00e9 performed \u201cProud Mary\u201d with her icon at the 2008 Grammys<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And might Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s flirty duet with Miley Cyrus, \u201cII Most Wanted,\u201d (\u201cMaking waves in the wind with my empty hand\/ My other hand on you\u201d) be the sequel (or prequel?) to Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u201cFast Car,\u201d a sapphic provocation from the shotgun seat, Luke Combs left behind in the dust? \u201cII Most Wanted\u201d is one of several songs on Cowboy Carter<\/em> that speak to the centrality of stories of finding love and mobility in Black country, blues, and rhythm and blues music. Whether by horse, train, Cadillac, or Starship, Black music is shaped by stories of leaving, returning, and wandering to places known and unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s crossing and melding, hybridizing and swirling on this album, has everything to do with reclaiming, an artistic action denied just about any Black artist who wants to make it in country music. For earlier Black artists like Bobby Womack, Millie Jackson, and Joe Tex, there has often been a double standard to \u201cstay in your lane,\u201d while white artists have been free to experiment, as Charles L. Hughes makes clear in his 2015 book, Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cowboy Carter<\/em> is a provocation, a new chapter, a clapback. It is not so much a rejection of the past as much as a sometimes-neck-popping conversation with that past, and with that, a rethinking of it. As both an improviser and re-interpreter, Beyonc\u00e9 carries forward the tradition of African American art-making that is deeply invested in the changing same, bringing new energy to past songs. This spirit of circularity, a key African American aesthetic is evoked in the very first lyrics of the album: \u201cNothing really ends\/ For things to stay the same\/ They have to change again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that way, we might see her as continuing a legacy of Black innovation in country music, whether it\u2019s Elizabeth Cotten playing her banjo upside down<\/a> because of the ill fit of the instruments she inherited, the countrypolitan storytelling of Linda Martell, or the sex-positive grooves of Millie Jackson and Tanner Adell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, there is a kind of recovery at the heart of this album\u2014a healing of the spirit of Black innovation in a genre that has worked so hard to repress it: \u201cHello, my old friend\/ You change your name but not the ways you play pretend,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 sings in \u201cAmerican Requiem.\u201d A requiem is normally a mass for the dead, a ritual of remembrance. In traditional white and western ways of thinking, the purpose of a requiem is to lay souls to rest. But on this album, the purpose is to raise the dead, to animate histories and memories once forgotten, or misnamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an album meant to lift the lid off of the coffin of music that has grown stagnant. Like the exorcism that it is, this process of challenging old narratives and animating lost stories can be risky, vulnerable work. But perhaps it is time to abandon the old \u201cpretend\u201d narratives of \u201cthree chords and the truth\u201d to honor other stories, to conjure in order to set all of us free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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