SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – Grammy award-winning singer Beyoncé released her long-awaited 7th album officially Friday morning, titled "Renaissance."
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The new album features dance music and pay homage to the past with several different samples. Aram Sinnreich Communications Professor at American University in Washington D.C. told KCBS Radio that this album is a "sonic tour through the history of African American club music over the last 50 years."
"This is an album about feeling good, it's about sexual joy, it's about romantic joy but it's also about blackness and black joy and the importance of feeling that in the current American cultural environment."
Sinnreich explained that this album shares the cultural history of African Americans and the underground history of dance music.
"The underground history of dance music is especially interesting and important because not only is it black history it's about queer history," he said. "It's about the history of dance clubs it’s about cultures that had to be underground because if they dared showed their face in the mainstream they might get beaten back down."
He added that it’s an amazing piece of work that can be enjoyed by different groups of people.
"This is a really adult album and I don't mean adult in the euphemistic sense I mean it's complex, it's rich, it's forward-looking but it's also nostalgic," he said. "It's got a lot to offer audiences across multiple generations."
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