The political allusions behind the Cowboy Carter album covers

🪕Megastar Beyonce's highly anticipated country-inspired album “Cowboy Carter” has cast a spotlight on efforts by Black performers -- a vital part of the genre's history -- to create a more inclusive Nashville. Country is a quintessentially American style of music with influences from Africa: the banjo notably grew out of instruments brought to the Americas and the Caribbean by enslaved people in the 1600s. Yet contemporary country has developed an overwhelmingly white, macho, conservative image