“Twenty-three in Music City/ With dreams and high-heeled boots/ Singin’ for a crowd of blue eyes/ Will they want me too?”
Beyoncé: ‘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.’NASHVILLE — croons Julie Williams at the Blue Room venue in Nashville.
Speaking to AFP backstage, Williams called Beyoncé’s move “a historic moment in bringing Black country to the mainstream.” The conversation about the marginalization of Black country artists has gained new traction in the wake of Beyoncé’s announcement, said Charles Hughes, author of Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South.
In the 1920s, industry professionals developed the terms “hillbilly” and “race” records to define popular music charts. Those labels grew into country and R&B, respectively.
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