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Formation Flashcards

1
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When was Formation released?

A

Released 6 Feb 2016

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What happened at the Super Bowl 50 half time show?

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Beyoncé Performed Formation live at Super Bowl 50 on the 7th February 2016 (day after release)

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What Awards has Formation won? (2)

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video (Melina Matsoukis) won MTV Video of the Year

Grammy Best Music Video.

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What happened in 2005?

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2005 Hurricane Katrina flooding of New Orleans

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Why is the Black panther 50th anniversary significant?

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Super Bowl performance was seen as tribute to 50 years of Black Panthers.

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How can the Contrast and conflict between old-fashioned dresses and stereotypical contemporary tight-fitting, revealing dancewear be seen as objectifying women?

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Clothing tends to sexualise women and present them as objects to be looked at?

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What is Bounce genre?

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Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music

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How can Roland Barthes Semiotics theory be associated with Formation?

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Beyoncé and other black women pose in white antebellum-era dresses associated with slave-owning women

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How does Bell Hooks Feminist theory adhere to Formation?

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The video feeds off New Orleans colonial culture as shown through the presentation of people and sexual references in Formation

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How does Paul Gilroy’s post-colonialism link to Formation?

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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.

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What is ‘Lemonade’?

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Beyoncé’s Sixth solo studio album released on 26th April

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What’s iconic about Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 costume?

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Same costume as Michael Jackson’s when he did Super Bowl

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What is the Antebellum era?

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Before the American civil war (1861)

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What’s the effect of Beyoncé’s dancers being a wide array of ethnicities?

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Ideas of unity and standing up to aggressive regimes (inequality)

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What is Diaspora?

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the dispersion or spread of any people from their original homeland.

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16
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What happened to Michael Brown?

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18 year old Michael Brown was shot by police and his body was left in streets for 4 hours

17
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Who was Malcolm X?

A

Leader of black panther movement

18
Q

What was Formation exclusively released on?

A

Tidal (artist-owned, including by Jay-Z / Beyoncé)

19
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Why was the government criticised in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina

A

Slow Government response and limited relief effort

20
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How may people watched the Super Bowl 50 half time show?

A

115.5 million

21
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What song did Beyoncé sing at Super Bowl 50?

A

Formation

22
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Want do the antebellum dresses reference?

A

links to Slave trade

23
Q

What was Lemonade released alongside?

A

Released alongside a documentary which aired on Tidal

24
Q

How has Beyoncé been constructed as powerful? (2)

A

making direct address to audience by looking into camera; powerful stances in front of groups (male and female)

25
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What does Beyoncé lying on top of a police car convey?

A

That she is powerful and above the police

26
Q

True or false

black lives matter is funded by Tidal?

A

True

27
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How can the Contrast and conflict between old-fashioned dresses and stereotypical contemporary tight-fitting, revealing dancewear be seen as NOT objectifying women?

A

lots of clothing is taking from global cultures which presents the costumes and people as a celebration of culture

28
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How does Bell Hooks Feminist theory contradict to Formation?

A

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.

29
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Why is Formation Subversive?

A

Calls out inequalities in society and celebrates black culture, possibly alienating white people.

32
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Why was hurricane Katrina so bad for coloured people?

A

They were located in the worst areas

33
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What is an ‘albino alligator’?

A

Alligators which are white which are often used as a sacrifice as they are easy prey due to them not having camouflage

34
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How could Beyoncé be seen as an ‘albino alligator’?

A

She sacrifices herself to keep the conversation about inequality going?

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