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With Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) as point of departure, this chapter discusses music as a spiritual technology. The centrality of music in Black lives and experiences includes questions about religion and spirituality. The chapter reads Lemonade within a tradition of Black cultural studies, with W. E. B. Du Bois and Amiri Baraka as central references. This history is arguably entangled in Beyoncé’s music and aesthetics, as is shown by an analysis and close reading of the song “Freedom,” and how this song is situated historically, musically, politically, and spiritually.

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Spirituality and Beyoncé’s Lemonade

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    2025年

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  • Erik Steinskog

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With Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) as point of departure, this chapter discusses music as a spiritual technology. The centrality of music in Black lives and experiences includes questions about religion and spirituality. The chapter reads Lemonade within a tradition of Black cultural studies, with W. E. B. Du Bois and Amiri Baraka as central references. This history is arguably entangled in Beyoncé’s music and aesthetics, as is shown by an analysis and close reading of the song “Freedom,” and how this song is situated historically, musically, politically, and spiritually.