Formation Flashcards
When was Formation released?
Released 6 Feb 2016
What happened at the Super Bowl 50 half time show?
Beyoncé Performed Formation live at Super Bowl 50 on the 7th February 2016 (day after release)
What Awards has Formation won? (2)
video (Melina Matsoukis) won MTV Video of the Year
Grammy Best Music Video.
What happened in 2005?
2005 Hurricane Katrina flooding of New Orleans
Why is the Black panther 50th anniversary significant?
Super Bowl performance was seen as tribute to 50 years of Black Panthers.
How can the Contrast and conflict between old-fashioned dresses and stereotypical contemporary tight-fitting, revealing dancewear be seen as objectifying women?
Clothing tends to sexualise women and present them as objects to be looked at?
What is Bounce genre?
Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music
How can Roland Barthes Semiotics theory be associated with Formation?
Beyoncé and other black women pose in white antebellum-era dresses associated with slave-owning women
How does Bell Hooks Feminist theory adhere to Formation?
The video feeds off New Orleans colonial culture as shown through the presentation of people and sexual references in Formation
How does Paul Gilroy’s post-colonialism link to Formation?
challenges racial hierarchy by subverting expectations and placing black woman in position of power and dominion, but may perpetuate binary opposition between races by emphasising sense of otherness and division.
What is ‘Lemonade’?
Beyoncé’s Sixth solo studio album released on 26th April
What’s iconic about Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 costume?
Same costume as Michael Jackson’s when he did Super Bowl
What is the Antebellum era?
Before the American civil war (1861)
What’s the effect of Beyoncé’s dancers being a wide array of ethnicities?
Ideas of unity and standing up to aggressive regimes (inequality)
What is Diaspora?
the dispersion or spread of any people from their original homeland.
What happened to Michael Brown?
18 year old Michael Brown was shot by police and his body was left in streets for 4 hours
Who was Malcolm X?
Leader of black panther movement
What was Formation exclusively released on?
Tidal (artist-owned, including by Jay-Z / Beyoncé)
Why was the government criticised in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina
Slow Government response and limited relief effort
How may people watched the Super Bowl 50 half time show?
115.5 million
What song did Beyoncé sing at Super Bowl 50?
Formation
Want do the antebellum dresses reference?
links to Slave trade
What was Lemonade released alongside?
Released alongside a documentary which aired on Tidal
How has Beyoncé been constructed as powerful? (2)
making direct address to audience by looking into camera; powerful stances in front of groups (male and female)
What does Beyoncé lying on top of a police car convey?
That she is powerful and above the police
True or false
black lives matter is funded by Tidal?
True
How can the Contrast and conflict between old-fashioned dresses and stereotypical contemporary tight-fitting, revealing dancewear be seen as NOT objectifying women?
lots of clothing is taking from global cultures which presents the costumes and people as a celebration of culture
How does Bell Hooks Feminist theory contradict to Formation?
Formation presents cultural codes for women of colour, creating a media text that has not been reduced to Western culture and going against the theory.
Why is Formation Subversive?
Calls out inequalities in society and celebrates black culture, possibly alienating white people.
Why was hurricane Katrina so bad for coloured people?
They were located in the worst areas
What is an ‘albino alligator’?
Alligators which are white which are often used as a sacrifice as they are easy prey due to them not having camouflage
How could Beyoncé be seen as an ‘albino alligator’?
She sacrifices herself to keep the conversation about inequality going?