The Texas native’s flag-waving, bull-riding summer of rodeo marks the latest step in her reclamation of country music’s Black roots
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Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour, which kicked off in California in April, began its European leg in London last week. I went to the first show and considered the legacy-making significance of this latest evolution in the singer’s long career – and the part that left me cold.