FROM LEMONS TO LEMONADE

BLACKNESS AND AFFECTIVENESS THROUGH THE VISUAL ALBUM LEMONADE (2016)

Authors

  • Adriano Barbosa Silva Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Abstract

In 2016, singer Beyoncé Gisele Knowles-Carter released the visual album Lemonade where she proposes a deep reflection on self-knowledge and healing based on a personal experience involving a marital betrayal committed by her husband Shawn Carter, known by the stage name Jay-Z. The singer delivers a film that reveals her story (and the shared story of other black women facing similar situations) through video clips of the tracks in question woven into the narrative fabric along the lines of poems authored by Warsan Shire. Based on this, this work rescues 04 tracks/segments from this visual album by Beyoncé, viewing them as an audiovisual historical source to study the impacts of colonial heritage and racist structures on the health and longevity of love relationships between black people.

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Author Biography

Adriano Barbosa Silva, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Graduando em Licenciatura Plena em História pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM). Membro do Laboratório de Estudos em História Cultural (LEHC). Integrante do grupo de pesquisa Estudos Africanos: Identidades, dinâmicas sociais e científicas. Membro da equipe editorial da Revista Discente do curso de História da UFAM - Manduarisawa. Desenvolvendo, de forma voluntária, um projeto de pesquisa científica sob o título ?Me serviram limões, mas eu fiz uma limonada?: uma análise das relações entre racismo, feminismo negro e amor afrocentrado através do álbum visual Lemonade (2016).

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Published

2024-05-18

Issue

Vol. 8 (2024)

Section

Artigos Livres