The Renaissance Reader

Beyonce and Black Queer Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-63335-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

The Renaissance Reader: Beyoncé and Black Queer Popular Culture offers a groundbreaking exploration of Beyoncé’s acclaimed album Renaissance, examining its celebration of Black queer aesthetics through disco, house, and bounce music.

Building on the success of The Lemonade Reader, this interdisciplinary collection brings together popular culture writers and scholars to analyse the album’s profound impact on contemporary culture and artistic expression. Through the lens of Black feminist and queer theory, contributors examine how Renaissance engages with and reimagines African American musical traditions while centring Black women’s experiences and queer aesthetics. This timely volume tackles crucial questions about Beyoncé’s evolving artistry, celebrity, and cultural impact, while exploring how her work intersects with contemporary Black feminist and queer theoretical methodologies.

The Renaissance Reader: Beyoncé and Black Queer Popular Culture is an essential text for scholars and students in Black women’s studies, queer studies, and popular culture, as well as for fans seeking deeper insight into Beyoncé’s artistic vision and cultural significance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, Kinitra D.

Jones, Nicholas R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Black Joy  1. Beyoncé’s Renaissance: A Queer Portal for Beylievers  2. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: Joy and Spatial Resistance in Beyoncé’s Renaissance  3. Everybody on Mute: Beyoncé’s Ability to Silently Slay with Queer Call and Response  4. Welcome to the Renaissance: Defying Distortion, Division, and Difference  Part II: Queerness  5. The Irresistible Terrorism of Beyoncé: On the War Between Desire, Representation, and Black Queer Freedom 6. The World Uncle Johnny Made: Queers, Children, and other Political Fantasies 7. “They looped. I looped. The samples to feel free”: Renaissance and Modern Ballroom as the Loophole of Retreat in the Afterlife of Slavery 8. Transcending the cis-tem: Interpolating Black queer temporality  Part III: Sound and Technology  9. “Equestrian Monument, 2023”: Horses in Beyoncé’s Antihistoricist Renaissance World  10. Black Feminist Sonic Rhetorics: Vocal Glitch and the Queering of Temporality in Beyoncé Renaissance 11. Look Around, Everybody on Mute!: Renaissance’s Potential Impact on Music Education  12. Media All Up in Your Mind: Accentuating Black Queer Vitality through Cultivated Silence  Part IV: Afrofuturism  13. The Renaissance Age of Pleasure: The Afro(feminist)futurism of Beyoncé & Janelle Monáe  14.  Mothers of the Renaissance: The Beyoncification of Afrofuturism  15. Church Girls, Blues Women, and the Future of the Black Queer South  16. Breaking to Build: Lessons for a Renaissance A Reflection from a Black Queer Artist

Über Autor(innen)

Kinitra D. Brooks is the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University, USA.

Nicholas R. Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, USA, and the former King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s Scholar-in-Residence at New York University, USA.