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Six years later, Tumblr has seen an increase in fascination with bucolic imagery. Between March and April of this year, the engagements with #cottagecore jumped 153%, according to Tumblr. 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But in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyoncé Knowles\u003c/a>‘ \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em>—directed by the star herself and released Friday on the streaming service Disney+—that longing is for the certainty of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A visual companion to the album \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/552zi1M53PQAX5OH4FIdTx?si=OAg0qvAqRcuZG5nawSf1vQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Gift\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—itself a companion to the release of the live-action remake of Disney’s \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em>—\u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em> is a retelling, of sorts, of the same story. This time though, it centers on ideas of Black belonging and regality. How has Blackness existed in the past? What does it mean in the present? How might it look in the future? In this extended metaphor, “king” is a synonym for the innate greatness that has been stolen from Black people the world over. With this project, Beyoncé seeks to restore that greatness to those of her lineage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles has long said she is a visual thinker, and those skills are never more apparent than when she applies them to her music. She is also a consummate collaborator, and as with \u003cem>Homecoming \u003c/em>before it, the sheer scale of this project indicates how much she is able to delegate to others in realizing her creative vision. The music of \u003cem>The Gift\u003c/em> itself draws on the legacy of afrobeat, blending the work of African artists like Burna Boy, Yemi Alade, Tiwa Savage, Nija and Shatta Wale with contributions from Black American artists like Tierra Whack, Pharrell Williams, Childish Gambino and Knowles’ husband, JAY-Z. The visuals, however, stand as a statement on their own, and extend the themes of Knowles’ other directorial outings.[aside postid='arts_11520849']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, Knowles drew on the symbolism of water to signify rebirth and renewal in her marriage. In \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em>, she revisits this motif, but takes it a step further. Here, she graduates from the sea to the stars, imagining a world in which Blackness and Black people are unconstrained by the limits of the earthly world. The water becomes a liminal space—the barrier between the here and the hereafter. The shore is the doorway to true spiritual freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the film’s beginning, Beyoncé launches a child in a basket onto the river, echoing the biblical story of Moses. At its end, she collects him again, reborn, renewed and given access to a new, free world after enduring the tribulations of rough waters. In \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em>, water is again transformative. Its mythical power is reflected in both the pain of sailing Black people across endless oceans for subjugation and its healing potential to wash away the violence of that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agCgvFTJeRs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em> is, in many ways, an exercise in wandering, searching and seeking a divine identity. In recent years, Knowles’ work has taken a sharp turn towards the politics of representation. From her self-titled album to \u003cem>Homecoming\u003c/em>, she has been exploring and examining the infinite malleability of Black cultural production. In this newest film, she makes that explicit. Using music as a conduit, she tries to be expansive in her view of the creative potential of Black people, taking time to highlight both the extremes of hyper-excellence and the divinity in the mundanity of everyday life.[aside postid='pop_111097']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyoncé has made it part of her own mission to create divine images of Black people that can be, and obviously are, widely consumed. In some ways, this is a corrective to how Black people have been depicted in the past—lazy degenerates in the U.S., poor and starving in an ill-defined Africa, largely invisible in the Caribbean. But even that deserves interrogation—the idea of a corrective presumes a white gaze. Black people have always found ways to see the beauty and sanctity in each other, so what is there to correct? It also calls into question the limits of a production like this. Beautiful as it is, how does it aid Black people to associate blackness with wealth and riches many of us \u003ca href=\"https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/i-hope-my-ancestors-were-goat-herders-not-kings-and-qu-1844593249?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=verysmartbrothas_twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will never attain in this life\u003c/a>? But capitalist concerns aside, Beyoncé takes great pains to associate Blackness not just with literal kings and queens, but also with community, consciousness and greatness. “I see us reflected in the world’s most heavenly things,” she says. “Black is King.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the critiques of the album in its original form was that it flattened the many distinct cultures and styles of the African continent into an easily consumable product, one that did not begin to approach a comprehensiveness of the sources it pulled from. 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Whose ancestral memory can she reference? \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em> marries the mundane and the divine in an effort to reconnect to the forgotten ancestry of all the Black peoples across the diaspora who have been ripped from their history by the violence of slavery and colonialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before “Already,” John Kani as Rafiki is heard in voiceover: “I know who I am, the question is who are you?” For many Black people, that question skews existential. Who are we without those who came before us? Who are we when we don’t \u003cem>know\u003c/em> who came before us? Beyoncé tries to draw a through-line from the diaspora back to the homeland that connects us, not necessarily to our roots, but to the possibilities that open up when we acknowledge that our lineage has more breadth than we can ever know. 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The allegation was made via an Instagram account called “Orchestra Is Racist,” one of several similarly geared social media accounts that have sprung up this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang is one of classical music’s few current superstars; she holds endorsement deals with leading luxury brands, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.rolex.com/world-of-rolex/every-rolex-tells-a-story/yuja-wang-rolex-watch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rimowa.com/us/en/neverstill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rimowa\u003c/a>. (In 2014, this reporter produced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/02/19/279059784/on-a-chilly-factory-floor-yuja-wangs-piano-sizzles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performance video\u003c/a> with Wang for NPR Music.) 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It’s important to listen to the many voices speaking out right now. We have to be open with each other to allow for the opportunity to acknowledge our missteps, to forgive and to grow from these experiences.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Within the comments section on the “Orchestra Is Racist” post, Kavakos republished a comment that he had originally made on his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/leonidas.kavakos.violin/photos/a.447608832086475/1517577618422919/?type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page\u003c/a> on June 2, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. He wrote in part: “If WE want to look at Humanity as an accord consisting of human lives, and attempting to create its own Harmony, the atrocious act of killing George Floyd, has destroyed that attempt. It is an act that stabs US ALL creating severe wounds, that threaten OUR Existence! If, additionally, this act is ‘justified’ by some kind of ‘life rating according to skin color,’ then I’m afraid, Humanity is suicidal.” Kavakos did not address the specific accusation made against him and Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, a representative for Kavakos sent another statement to NPR, which read in full: “I find accusations of any form of racism deeply upsetting and abhorrent. I will never accept any form of discrimination and I am vehement in my commitment to equal rights and inclusivity. If I have ever offended anyone by how I have previously spoken I wholeheartedly apologize to them and can assure them that any hurt caused was completely unintentional and does not reflect the person I am and my values. I welcome the current discussions that are taking place that are teaching everyone that we all have something to learn and need to listen to all voices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, classical music’s academic sphere is facing its own reckoning. Last November, at the annual conference for the Society for Music Theory, a Black music theorist named \u003ca href=\"http://philipewell.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philip Ewell\u003c/a> gave an \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/372726003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">address\u003c/a> titled Music Theory’s White Racial Frame. As part of his presentation, Ewell argued that Heinrich Schenker, a late 19th and early 20th century theorist whose work has been foundational in the musical analysis of Western art music, was not only explicitly racist personally, but that Schenker also contended himself that his views on race and on music were indivisible. He also pointed out that his field is still overwhelmingly dominated by white academics, and that the musical material taught to students is also heavily tilted towards the work of white (and male) composers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reply, an academic journal published by the Center for Schenkerian Studies and the University of North Texas Press called the \u003cem>Journal of Schenkerian Studies\u003c/em> published \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTOWwlIsuiwsgAa4f1N99AlvG3-ngnmG/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 non-peer-reviewed responses\u003c/a> to Ewell’s work this month, including one anonymous essay—an anomaly for an academic project. 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"content": "\u003cp>Let us now take you back in time to another world. A world where face masks are just kooky accessories and cell phones exist but nobody uses them. A world where Napster has been invented but CD sales are \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/186772/album-shipments-in-the-us-music-industry-since-1999/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at an all-time high\u003c/a>. It’s a post-internet, pre-social media world, which means everyone feels futuristic but still has to leave the house to see other people. And so they do. They crowd into small cars and sweaty rooms and dance their faces off at raves until dawn, unimpeded by selfies, sobriety or—*checks notes*—sheltering in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883181']How can we transport you back to this land that time forgot, you ask? Via three movies—\u003cem>Groove, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Human Traffic \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Go. \u003c/em>Each of which provides a perfect snapshot of rave culture as the new millennium approached. Back then, dance culture was big enough to be internationally popular but small enough to remain independent and scrappy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Go\u003c/em> was by far the shiniest of the bunch. To start with, \u003cem>Human Traffic, \u003c/em>set in working class Wales, and \u003cem>Groove, \u003c/em>set in San Francisco’s pre-condo “warehouse district,” are both indies. But they also both offer grittier realities, in which no one would ever confuse aspirin for ecstasy, as green teens do in \u003cem>Go\u003c/em>. What all three movies \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have in common, however, is a thirst for escapism, a passion for irresponsible behavior and—we mention this up front so you have the option to leave if you wish—a very cavalier attitude towards illegal drug-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was not unusual for the time. Between 1998 and 2001, dance culture brought with it the first open, mass acceptance of hard drug use since the Summer of Love 30 years before. According to an in-depth \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967577/#R6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 study\u003c/a>, ecstasy use during those years “rose sharply [and] doubled among 12th graders, college students, and young adults, and nearly doubled in the lower grades. In 2000 even the 8th graders showed a significant increase in use. Among young adults, the increase in use occurred primarily among those under age 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Human Traffic\u003c/em> doesn’t just reflect that period, it actively endorses it. In one scene at the club, a voiceover from protagonist Jip dreamily states: “We forget all the pain and the hurt in life. We want to go somewhere else. All our insecurities have evaporated. We’re in the clouds now. We’re spacemen orbiting the earth. We risk sanity for moments of temporary enlightenment. We embrace an overwhelming feeling of love. We flow in unison. We’re together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPK6ZYq_p0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another, when a doctor warns that ecstasy use can cause depression, sexual dysfunction and heatstroke, Jip argues: “Statistically you’re more likely to die from choking on a cabbage leaf or an argument in the pub than you are from dropping an E. Alcohol kills 30,000 people a year alone in Britain. But that’s alright because it’s a good taxable drug nonetheless.” At the end of the night, he and best friend Koop talk philosophy over lines of cocaine. Despite all of the drugs he’s taken, no one worries about Jip driving everyone home at sunrise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Groove\u003c/em> was equally unconcerned about driving under the influence, and equally happy to promote ecstasy use. “Pop and beer, they fuck you up,” Cliff, full-time teacher’s assistant and part-time drug dealer, advises. “This enhances you. It heightens your awareness, especially touch. The feeling of connection, openness, honesty. It’s like being a kid…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9pAL8Qg-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly though, \u003cem>Groove\u003c/em> focused on the sheer effort and organizational clout it took to throw unlicensed parties back then, as well as emphasizing how worthwhile it all was. The film follows several groups of dance enthusiasts who battle power cuts, unreliable DJs, bad directions, sticker-wielding candy ravers and a cop (played by a pre-fame Nick Offerman) in order to have their party—but party they do, against all odds. (Talk about a mid-pandemic fantasy!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Success is hard won in \u003cem>Go\u003c/em> too—a movie that uses a Christmas rave in L.A. as the backdrop for intertwining tales about three broke teenagers, their obnoxious British co-worker, two gay soap opera actors and a gun-toting ecstasy dealer. The Mary X-Mas dance party is a laser-blasted, blacklit spectacular full of glowsticks, bucket hats, mini backpacks and the kinds of space bun hairdos that disappeared with the last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSOBdkzG1YI&t=87s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, \u003cem>Human Traffic\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Groove\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Go\u003c/em> all captured lightning in a bottle. 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"content": "\u003cp>No, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/120581188/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Swift\u003c/a> did not spend her quarantine nurturing her sourdough starter or tie-dying old sweaters. Nor did she use the period to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753393630/look-what-they-made-her-do-taylor-swift-to-re-record-her-catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-record her catalog\u003c/a> as promised last year after a label dispute. Instead Swift quietly spent \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1258448468907081728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">self-isolation\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1254880164447760385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at work\u003c/a> on a new album, \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em>, released at midnight on July 24.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/2fenSS68JI1h4Fo296JfGr\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1286270136006184960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Announced\u003c/a> with just 16 hours notice, Swift’s eighth studio album finds her again collaborating on a handful of tracks with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/12/549142219/bleachers-tiny-desk-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Antonoff\u003c/a>, who she called, in a social media post \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1286270136006184960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcing the album’s existence\u003c/a> yesterday, “basically musical family at this point.” But her main collaborator across the album is a new one: Aaron Dessner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15161426/the-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National\u003c/a> co-wrote or produced 11 of its 16 tracks. \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em> also features a track with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/18073513/bon-iver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bon Iver\u003c/a>, plus orchestration from a cohort of frequent Dessner collaborators, including brother Bryce Dessner and bandmate Bryan Devendorf, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/02/811298534/bonny-light-horseman-makes-new-folk-music-inspired-by-the-spirit-of-old-folk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Kaufman\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2012/02/15/146948792/ymusic-joyful-virtuosity-for-spinning-on-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rob Moose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/597087913/clarice-jensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clarice Jensen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16109579/doveman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Bartlett\u003c/a>, among others. (Can we expect an appearance from Swift at \u003ca href=\"https://eauxclaires.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eaux Claires\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/havenkbh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HAVEN\u003c/a> someday?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em> applies Swift’s signature lyrical style—richly and carefully detailed, rife with knowing callbacks—to a new palette informed by Dessner’s work. Skittering instrumentation proves a match for Swift’s use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/11/10/562360434/the-old-taylors-not-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speak-song cadence\u003c/a>; meditative piano and horns offer a cinematic soundscape for explorations of character that move beyond autobiography. Much of Swift’s catalog has been scrutinized by listeners looking for parallels between lyrical melodrama and real-life events—looking for clues in tossed off mentions of scarves and necklaces. \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em> features songs that explore points of view that seem to diverge from Swift’s life, including third-person narratives. \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em> explores a more restrained type of Swiftian expression that’s no less exciting than her massive pop singles. She’s synthesizing influences (is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(The_National_album)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Boxer\u003c/em>\u003c/a> the “indie record” of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4iX5D9Z64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“We Are Never Getting Back Together”\u003c/a> fame?) that she’s cited over the years, even if they hadn’t been clear in her discography up to this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Swift skipped her typical \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717346125/watch-taylor-swifts-video-for-me-featuring-brendon-urie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-album fanfare\u003c/a> ahead of \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em>, sleuthing fans quickly identified a few \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/27/809983814/taylor-swift-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Easter eggs\u003c/a> in the short time between the album’s announcement and its release. William Bowery, who is credited with co-writing two tracks, doesn’t appear to have credits that predate this work, prompting some to speculate that it’s a pseudonym. It wouldn’t be the first case of secret identity in her work: Swift used the name Nils Sjöberg for her work on Calvin Harris’ 2016 song “This Is What You Came For.” Swifties also speculated this spring when the artist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1264740730771300359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">praised a cover\u003c/a> of “Look What You Made Me Do” featured on \u003cem>Killing Eve \u003c/em>attributed to Jack Leopards & The Dolphin Club, widely assumed to be Swift’s brother Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift has never gone longer than a few years without releasing a new album, but the brief 11-month gap between \u003cem>Lover\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Folklore\u003c/em>—with no real tour between—is unprecedented in her career. In a statement, Swift explained, “Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening.” Earlier this year, Swift announced that she’d be \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1251193743912456192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rescheduling her Lover Fest shows\u003c/a> in Foxborough, Mass., and Inglewood, Calif., due to the global pandemic. 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