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Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a Genre Explosion (with Danielle Amir Jackson) (Patreon Preview)

Pop Pantheon

DJ Louie XIV

Music Commentary, Music, Pop Culture, Pop, Pop Music

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Beyoncé eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, dropped last Friday. Once perceived as a foray into country music, this sprawling 80 (!!) minute epic turned out to be so much more than that and, as with any Bey project, begs for some serious unpacking. DJ Louie, Russ and Oxford American's Danielle Amir Jackson are here to do just that, breaking down the music, themes, references, history and breadth of the expansive second installment in Beyoncé's unfurling new trilogy.

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0:00.0

Yeha, everybody. This is DJ Louis here dropping a snippet of our latest Poppampi on All Access episode,

0:07.2

which, as you can imagine, is an in-depth look at Beyonce's eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter,

0:13.6

which dropped last Friday. Myself, Russ, and the incredible Danielle Amir Jackson got

0:19.5

together to break down everything about this record.

0:22.2

And I'm playing a quick snippet of it here.

0:24.4

If you enjoy this discussion and you want to hear the rest of this episode, plus weekly

0:28.6

bonus episodes of the show and so much more bonus stuff.

0:32.7

You can go to patreon.com slash Bob Pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this episode.

0:36.7

And if you just want the

0:37.5

audio only of the bonus episodes, you can subscribe directly in the Apple Podcast app. So here is a snippet

0:42.7

of Danielle Russ and I's conversation about Cowboy Carter. All right, we are gathered here this

0:49.0

morning to discuss Beyonce's brand new album, Cowboy Carter. We have a very special guest, Danielle Amir Jackson,

0:56.4

who is the editor-in-chief of Oxford American. Earlier this year, Oxford American put together

1:01.6

this incredible collection of stories that chart both the historical and the contemporary

1:06.4

contributions to country music from black artists. It's called Black Country, a Love Letter, and

1:12.1

Living Archive. She's also working on a book about women and the blues. Danielle, welcome to the show.

1:17.6

Hello, thank you so much for having me. And of course, Louie is here too. Hi, Louie. Happy Beyonce.

1:23.3

Happy Beyonce. I definitely do not have as illustrious a list of credits as our guest does today.

1:28.8

So I'm very happy that I'm here with both of you to talk about an incredibly dense and sprawling body of work that we've only had, what, three, four days to process.

1:40.0

I think only thing I'll say as my little intro is, please allow us that grace.

1:44.5

Like we are just still processing this.

1:46.9

This is obviously the type of album that's going to unfurl itself over time, I think.

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