ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Beyoncé's story of musical experienced in her Parisian apartment, with a sad touch on her voice. The shaping of personal identity through recorded music, she explained in a professorial tone, it's all now in the way you surf across the universe. In that digital universe of recorded music, the keyword is: playlist. Play your list, list and play, listen to your play. Besides classical music, nearly every Sunday morning, Thelonious Monk would play with Sonny Rollins in the living room. For some reason, that was the only jazz record in the collection, but it was one of the most regularly played of all. She learnt most of the solos by heart, and she sung them while the record played, mimicking the instruments. For some other reason, she continued, rock music was totally absent, except for The Beatles' Abbey Road, allowing the teenager she was to build on that very lack a sound space of her own.
