Sold Date: October 27, 2017
Start Date: October 17, 2017
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BRAND NEW!!!!
Intimate and All Access Behind The Scenes throughout the making of the LEMONADE album and its promotional era. INCLUDES first print Vinyl edition and huge, HEAVY 600 page book

*FROM THE INTRODUCTION FROM MY OWN BOOK*: Like encoded Freedom Quilts that led running slaves north, Beyonce’s songs sing a Black Girl’s size, her possibilities, songs Black Girls wear like mother’s clothes in dress-up, sequin sparkling like Technicolor Cinemascope-like dreams, often deferred, stretched thin as spider’s silk from which are woven convoluted labyrinthine maps to a Black Woman’s freedom, a Heaven that is “a Love without betrayal..." In a world of such violence against the Black Woman, Beyonce’s music is often a balm of Gilead, something like a holiday meal or the warmth of a family reunion. It is viscerally familiar, homegirl Black girl camaraderie in her best friend songs with Destiny’s Child. Other songs are so sinisterly sensual, the way sometimes a woman possessed of Self Awareness may frighten even her own self with the Power of her sexuality, a woman who looks in the mirror one day and sees herself a Giant, Terrible and Lovely as the First Mother, and Sexy As F*ck...