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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Beyoncé"”.
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"The Day Beyoncé Turned Black": An Analysis of Media Responses to Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 Halftime Performance
… involves an analysis of media responses to Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 halftime performance of the song “Formation.” The first method is a qualitative thematic analysis that aims to answer two research questions: 1) What themes are presented within liberal and conservative media responses? 2) …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… Jones (a twentieth-century soprano singer), and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (a contemporary singer-celebrity, songwriter, and producer), this study re-imagines the archive of Black singer-celebrities by centering Black women’s performances and voices to illuminate the diverse, nuanced representations …
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Girl of Color-Power: Resisting the Neoliberal Girl Power Agent
… color, in the name of empowerment); musical icon Beyoncé; and the advocacy of the social justice oriented group, The Radical Monarchs, this project analyzes the exclusivity of girl power regardless of girl of color presence and posits girl of color-power as an inclusive framework that centers the …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
… blogosphere and reshaped the conversation about Beyoncé and feminism. In conclusion, the sixth chapter highlights implications of Black women’s discourse and rhetorical agency online and provides suggestions for how the findings of this study can inform the field’s current understandings of Black …
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
… music put out into the world by artists like Beyoncé and J. Cole, the resulting tracks a kind of Black biologically dead/Black biologically alive mashup. This project demands a kind of reading that is accountable to the Black biologically dead/Black biologically alive, and opens up a much …
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When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration Of Black Girls’ Multimedia Fantasy Narratives As Sites Of Legacy, Lineage And Creative Freedom
… Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe and Lemonade by Beyoncé provide this chapter’s case study. Chapter 4 underscores how the digital provides fertile ground for experimentation, self-definition and relational group identity by locating Micah Ariel Watson’s Black Enough as a genre-defying piece of art …