The ascendance of Beyoncé the country music singer has been criticized as everything from a marketing ploy to claims of inauthenticity.
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The book, out April 9, will have a companion soundtrack with new music from Black artists who have touched all subgenres of country, including Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer. The goal of both the book and music is to course-correct the narrative of just who can break through country’s gatekeepers—or perhaps argue whether there should be any gatekeepers at all.
“It is a song that is in conversation with other country songs. For example, it’s in conversation with ‘16 Tons’ , ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’ , ‘Strawberry Wine’ , and my own ‘XXX’s and OOO’s,’” she said. “She played on every bar of it. So did Louis Armstrong. So there were three musical geniuses that played on the record. One was Louis Armstrong, one was Lil Hardin Armstrong, and one was Jimmie Rogers. Two thirds of the people playing on the records were Black people. And the only person who played on every bar of the record was a Black woman.”
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