Beyoncé's “break my soul”: An anthem of courage, resistance, peace, and community

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI:10.1111/jpcu.13374

Neal A. Lester

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Abstract

In 2023, Beyoncé became the artist with the most Grammys in music history. Her dance track, “Break My Soul,” from her Renaissance album,* is a radical statement about community and self-affirmation grounded in Black and queer cultural specificity. This article explores “Break My Soul” as an anthem of uplift, advice, and unity that offers hope and reprieve to a world emerging from a global pandemic and a “racial reckoning” galvanized by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd.

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2023 年，碧昂斯成为音乐史上获得格莱美奖最多的艺术家。她的《文艺复兴》专辑*中的舞曲《Break My Soul》是一首关于黑人和同性恋文化特性的社区和自我肯定的激进宣言。本文探讨的《Break My Soul》是一首振奋人心、谆谆教诲和团结一致的颂歌，它为刚刚摆脱全球大流行病和明尼阿波利斯警官德里克-乔文（Derek Chauvin）谋杀乔治-弗洛伊德（George Floyd）事件引发的 "种族清算 "的世界带来了希望和缓和。

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Journal of Popular Culture Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world. The fabric of human social life is not merely the art deemed worthy to hang in museums, the books that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies" elite. The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.