Acrylic and ink on a canvas panel cradled in a beechwood frame
200 x 200mm
I love this new music from Beyoncé and I read a great piece about on the origins of country music.
I will put the link in my stories - it explains how people are wrong, and in fact just plain racist, to say Beyoncé is borrowing from country music.
“The truth is that country music has never been white. Country music is Black. Country music is Mexican. Country music is Indigenous. She did not need to read Black Country Music: Listening For Revolutions by Francesca Royster, Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music, or My Country, Too: The Other Black Music by Pamela E. Foster to understand that.
Knowles-Carter simply needed to walk outside her house in Houston, Texas and witness the cultural exchange between Black, Tejano, and Indigenous communities in her hometown. She did not need white validation to classify her country—she has been country for the entirety of her life.” TIME - TAYLOR CRUMPTON
