ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss the landmark live performance of the song “Daddy Lessons” by Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks at the 2016 Country Music Awards. I link this performance to larger interventions that Beyoncé makes in stereotypes about black violence in her visual album Lemonade. The sonic and visual commandeering of the country music Outlaw image in “Daddy Lessons” dramatizes racial and gendered tensions at the heart of the segregated history of country music, offering a new model of cross-racial collaboration.
