Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter highlights the long history of Texas' Black cowboy culture Getty Images Beyoncé's album Cowboy Carter delves into the Black country music genre, revisiting her own country roots in Houston, Texas Anyone confused about Beyoncé's newest foray into the country genre has only to visit her home state of Texas to learn about Black Cowboy culture. Though Beyonce …
LETHEM, Guyana — Their horses’ hooves kick up dust amid blaring country music as participants enter the arena to begin the Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo, a celebration of the cowboy lifestyle on Guyana’s rugged Rupununi savannah. The two-day, annual rodeo draws thousands of visitors from Guyana’s capital and other countries, especially neighboring Brazil. Business teacher Shinier Smartt, 22, traveled from Georgetown, …
Ron Jennings grew up in Los Angeles, but he’s all country, right down to his cowboy hat and folksy twang. At the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo’s latest stop in City of Industry east of Los Angeles, not only are all of the cowboys and cowgirls Black — so are most of the 3,500 spectators. “There’s nothing like the feeling of …
