Description
Book SynopsisFeatures work by 10 contributors on "Queen Bey" Examines Beyoncé's career, and her involvement in current issues Uses accessible language that will appeal to both a general and scholarly audience interested in social justice, Black Lives Matter, and feminism Builds on editors' previous volume on Lady Gaga from Routledge
Trade Review"Iddon and Marshall's Beyoncé is poised to expand critical conversations about the biggest and most influential pop star of the 21st century."—Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Beyoncé at Work, Making Beyoncé
1. Surviving the Hustle: Beyoncé's Performance of Work
2. "A Scientist of Songs": Beyoncé's Recording Studio Music Making and the Problem of Authorship in Popular Music
3. "Singing All The Time": Constructions of Cultural Identity in Beyoncé's I am... Sasha Fierce
Part II: Beyoncé On Screen, Reading Beyoncé
4. Beyoncé's Mixed Media Feminism: Sounding, Staging, and Sampling Gender Politics in "***Flawless"
5. "At Last a Dream That I Can Call My Own": Beyoncé and the Performance of Stardom in Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records
6. For the Texas Bama Femme: A Black Queer Femme-inist Reading of Beyoncé's "Sorry"
7. Gypsying Beyoncé: The Latin Crossover through Hispanic Stereotypes
Part III: Beyoncé Online, Re-presenting Beyoncé
8. Unlikely Resemblances: "Single Ladies," and Comparative Judgment of Popular Dance
9. "I See Music": Beyoncé, YouTube, and the Question of Signed-Songs
10. "Girl I'm Tryna Kick It With Ya": Tracing the Reception of "7/11"'s Embodiment of Girl/Bedroom Culture Through YouTube Reaction Videos
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