Sheldon Taylor's Souls of Black Notes

In an August 2022 npr.org article Revolutionary Fun: Why we can't stop talking about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' music critic/musicologist Jason King shared fellow culture/music critic Greg Tate's summary of Beyonce Knowles' enduring appeal:  “She's a curatorial genius whose magic is to bring together collaborators and other people's intellectual property into a unique artistic vision that is a sum often greater than its parts.”   Critics frame the singer as a country music interloper even as Country Music Television (CMT) features acts who cribbed her machine-gun vocal as well as unique elements associated with urban music.  A 2004 video from contemporary country singer Gretchen ("Redneck Woman") back then reeked of early 2000s106 and Park. Knowles' biggest critic is John Schneider, the New York-born/Atlanta raised actor whose claim to fame was his portrayal  of southern good ol' boy Bo Duke on the hit TV series the Dukes of Hazzard.