Photographer Blair Caldwell has shot the striking cover artwork for Beyoncé’s new album — in an image that intends to give new meaning to the concept of “country music.”— which shows the singer riding a white horse, holding an American flag, wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat, decked out in red, white and blue.
“The aesthetic choice is bold and seems to be signaling the ways that Beyoncé is putting herself into conversations about nationalism, a theme very much central to discourses about country music, patriotism, and authenticity, from the times of its origins,” Francesca T Royster, an English professor at DePaul University and author of
By portraying Beyoncé as an American cowboy, Caldwell’s photograph seeks to reinscribe images of Black women into the history of the cowboys and the West.The imagery comes at a time when the American cowboy is undergoing a reassessment, with artists reclaiming the lost legacy of
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