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Beyoncé in the world : making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times / edited by Christina Baade and Kristin McGee ; foreword by Janelle Hobson.

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Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2021]

Beyoncé, 1981- -- Criticism and interpretation.

Beyoncé, 1981- -- Appreciation.

Beyoncé, 1981- Lemonade.

Popular music -- History and criticism.

Feminism and music.

African American women in popular culture.

9780819579928 (paperback)

0819579920 (paperback)

xx, 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Introduction. Beyoncé Studies / Christina Baade, Marquita Smith, and Kristin McGee -- PART ONE. "DIVA" / BLACK FEMINIST GENEALOGIES. "I Came to Slay" : The Knowles Sisters, Black Feminism, and the Lineage of Black Female Cool / H. Zahra Caldwell ; From Colorism to Conjurings : Tracing the Dust in Beyoncé's Lemonade / Cienna Davis -- PART TWO. "FORMATION" / A SOUTHERN TURN. Beyoncé's South and a "Formation" Nation Riché Richardson / Merging Past and Present in Lemonade's Black Feminist Utopia / J. Brendan Shaw -- PART THREE. "XO" / FAITH AND FANDOM. At the Digital Cross(roads) with Beyoncé : Gospel Covers That Remix the Risqué into the Religious / Birgitta J. Johnson ; "She Made Me Understand" : How Lemonade Raised the Intersectional Consciousness of Beyoncé's International Fans / Rebecca J. Sheehan -- PART FOUR. "WORLDWIDE WOMAN" / BEYONCÉ'S RECEPTION BEYOND THE UNITED STATES. The Performative Negotiations of Beyoncé in Brazilian Bodies and the Construction of the Pop Diva in Ludmilla's Funk Carioca and Gaby Amarantos's Tecnobrega / Simone Pereira de Sá and Thiago Soares ; A Critical Analysis of White Ignorance Within Beyoncé's Online Reception in the Spanish Context / Elena Herrera Quintana -- PART FIVE. "HOLD UP" / PERFORMING FEMME AFFINITY AND DISSENT. Six-Inch Heels and Queer Black Femmes : Beyoncé and Black Trans Women / Jared Mackley-Crump and Kirsten Zemke ; From "Say My Name" to "Texas Bamma" : Transgressive Topoi, Oppositional Optics, and Sonic Subversion in Beyoncé's "Formation" / Byron B Craig and Stephen E. Rahko -- PART SIX. "FREEDOM" / SOUNDING PROTEST, HEARING POLITICS. The Deformed Musical Forms of Beyoncé's Celebrity Activism / Annelot Prins and Taylor Myers ; Beyoncé's Black Feminist Critique : Multimodal Intertextuality and Intersectionality in "Sorry" / Rebekah Hutten and Lori Burns -- PART SEVEN. "PRAY YOU CATCH ME" / HEALING AND COMMUNITY. Beyond "Becky with the Good Hair" : Hair and Beauty in Beyoncé's "Sorry" / Kristin Denise Rowe ; The Livable, Surviving, and Healing Poetics of Lemonade : A Black Feminist Futurity in Action / Mary Senyonga.

"Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars with expertise in gender and ethnic studies; communication and cultural studies; and music, religion, history, and literature, this volume draws on a diversity of perspectives and methods to investigate the artistic meanings, cultural contexts, and significance of Beyoncé's LEMONADE"--

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