It's a challenge she has engaged head-on since she released her visual album Beyonce in 2013.
Cowboy Carter is an overstuffed album, 27 tracks maxing out the 79-minute capacity of a CD and stretching across two LPs.
The Cowboy Carter album cover is an opening salvo, brandishing western and American symbols: Beyonce holding an American flag while riding a white horse sidesaddle.
The politics of her new songs are vague and glancing, but the music insists that every style is her American birth.
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