Beyoncé kicked off her "Cowboy Carter" tour in Los Angeles, and it is a bold blend of country music, political symbolism and ...

Dressed in all-white Western looks styled through a distinctly Black lens, Beyoncé steps onto the stage and immediately challenges the traditional image of country music — and who it’s meant for.

Emily Roberts will also discuss “Queer Reframings of Nostalgia in Bluegrass Lyricism,” during another panel discussion. She ...

Beyoncé used visuals and interludes to address criticisms and highlight Black contributions to country music. The tour's themes ... whole lotta red in that white and blue." On opening night ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music ... and their free Black descendants, who mightily shaped what came to be categorized, ...

So as much as country music ... a white man’s world as far as hit artists go, there’s no need to remind anyone that Guyton started with two strikes against her: being female and being Black.

And perhaps most exciting of all: the 2025 ACM Awards will open with a 14-minute “Songs of the Decades” performance highlight 60 years of country music and featuring McEntire, Clint Black ...

appeasing their overwhelmingly White, Southern, and conservative base. Not so Willie Nelson. Throughout his long life in entertainment, Nelson has doggedly challenged country music's rigid obstinacy.

Of course Music ... release, White kept his guerilla-style momentum going. In July, he began playing a flurry of last-minute, spontaneous pop-up shows at venues across the country giving fans ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music ... the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State — that the stuff she was digging ...