In the caption, Beyonce wrote: 'My hope is that years from now, the mention of an artist's race, as it relates to releasing genres of music, will be irrelevant.'
The aesthetic choice is bold and seems to be signaling the ways that Beyonce 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, Royster said.
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