Beyonc?in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times (Paperback)

Acknowledgments ? Contributor Biographies ? Preface, Janell Hobson ? Introduction, "Beyonce Studies," Christina Baade, Marquita Smith, Kristin McGee ? I. "Diva": Black Feminist Genealogies ? Chapter 1. "'I Came to Slay': The Knowles Sisters, Black Feminism, and the Lineage of Black Female Cool," H. Zahra Caldwell ? Chapter 2. "From Colorism to Conjurings: Tracing the Dust in Beyonce's Lemonade," Cienna Davis ? II. "Formation": A Southern Turn ? Chapter 3. "Beyonce's South and a 'Formation' Nation," Riche Richardson ? Chapter 4. "Merging Past and Present in Lemonade's Black Feminist Utopia," J. Brendan Shaw ? III. "XO": Faith and Fandom ? Chapter 5. "At the Digital Cross(roads) with Beyonce: Gospel Covers that Remix the Risque into the Religious," Birgitta Johnson ? Chapter 6. "'She made me understand': How Lemonade Raised the Intersectional Consciousness of Beyonce's International Fans," Rebecca J. Sheehan ? IV. "World Wide Woman": Beyonce's Reception Beyond the United States ? Chapter 7. "The 'Performative Negotiations' of Beyonce in Brazilian Bodies and the Construction of the "Pop Diva" in Ludmilla's Funk Carioca and Gaby Amarantos's Tecnobrega," Simone Pereira de Sa and Thiago Soares ? Chapter 8. "A Critical Analysis of 'White Ignorance' within Beyonce's Online Reception in the Spanish Context," Elena Herrera Quintana ? V. "Hold Up": Performing Femme Affinity and Dissent ? Chapter 9. "Six-inch Heels and Queer Black Femmes: Beyonce and Black Trans Women," Jared Mackley-Crump and Kirsten Zemke ? Chapter 10. "From 'Say My Name' to 'Texas Bamma': Transgressive Topoi, Oppositional Optics, and Sonic Subversion in Beyonce's 'Formation,'" Byron Craig and Stephen Rahko ? VI. "Freedom": Sounding Protest, Hearing Politics ? Chapter 11. "The Deformed Musical Forms of Beyonce's Celebrity Activism," Annelot Prins and Taylor Myers ?Chapter 12. "Beyonce's Black Feminist Critique: Multimodal Intertextuality and Intersectionality in 'Sorry' (Lemonade 2016)," Rebekah Hutten and Lori Burns ? VII. "Pray You Catch Me": Healing and Community ? Chapter 13. "Beyond 'Becky with the Good Hair': Hair and Beauty in Beyonce's 'Sorry,'" Kristin Denise Rowe ? Chapter 14. "The Livable, Surviving, and Healing Poetics of Lemonade: A Black Feminist Futurity in Action," Mary Senyonga