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Beyoncé in the World
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyoncé Studies
PART ONE "DIVA" / BLACK FEMINIST GENEALOGIES
1. "I Came to Slay": The Knowles Sisters, Black Feminism, and the Lineage of Black Female Cool
2. From Colorism to Conjurings: Tracing the Dust in Beyoncé's Lemonade
PART TWO "FORMATION" / A SOUTHERN TURN
3. Beyoncé's South and a "Formation" Nation
4. Merging Past and Present in Lemonade's Black Feminist Utopia
PART THREE "XO" / FAITH AND FANDOM
5. At the Digital Cross(roads) with Beyoncé: Gospel Covers That Remix the Risqué into the Religious
6. "She Made Me Understand": How Lemonade Raised the Intersectional Consciousness of Beyoncé's International Fans
PART FOUR "WORLDWIDE WOMAN" / BEYONCÉ'S RECEPTION BEYOND THE UNITED STATES
7. 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
8. A Critical Analysis of White Ignorance Within Beyoncé's Online Reception in the Spanish Context
PART FIVE "HOLD UP" / PERFORMING FEMME AFFINITY AND DISSENT
9. Six-Inch Heels and Queer Black Femmes: Beyoncé and Black Trans Women
10. From "Say My Name" to "Texas Bamma": Transgressive Topoi, Oppositional Optics, and Sonic Subversion in Beyoncé's "Formation"
PART SIX "FREEDOM" / SOUNDING PROTEST, HEARING POLITICS
11. Musical Form in Beyoncé's Protest Music
12. Beyoncé's Black Feminist Critique: Multimodal Intertextuality and Intersectionality in "Sorry"
PART SEVEN "PRAY YOU CATCH ME" / HEALING AND COMMUNITY
13. Beyond "Becky with the Good Hair": Hair and Beauty in Beyoncé's "Sorry" Kristin Denise Rowe
14. The Livable, Surviving, and Healing Poetics of Lemonade: A Black Feminist Futurity in Action
About the Contributors
Index.