The Renaissance Reader : Beyonce and Black Queer Popular Culture (Paperback)

Introduction??Part I: Black Joy??1. Beyonce’s Renaissance: A Queer Portal for Beylievers??2. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: Joy and Spatial Resistance in Beyonce’s?Renaissance??3. Everybody on Mute: Beyonce ’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 Beyonce: 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 Beyonce’s Antihistoricist?Renaissance World??10. Black Feminist Sonic Rhetorics: Vocal Glitch and the Queering of Temporality in?Beyonce 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 Beyonce & Janelle?Monae??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?