Confinement was the essence of Linda Martell’s brief career as a country star in the 1970s – and it’s the exact sort of fate that Beyoncé has sought to avoid.
Roxanne Jones writes that, by refusing to be musically and culturally contained, Beyonce has given country music a boost that could only have come from one of the world’s top entertainers with her new album “Act II: Cowboy Carter.”
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.