Minnie Cooper

The use of bricolage Bricolage is a media product that combines lots of different elements form different time perods and styles. so in the fomation music video there are elements of 80's styles like when beonce is wearing the fur coat and has cornrows as this was a popular style aoped by many rappers and artists at the time. by using bricolage beyonce presents a specific meaning to the audience that her music and the meaning of her music will still be relevent to future generations so to show this she used elements of other times. The future will still hold inequality between races as this music video will continue to show the way in which society deals with thse issues and highlights the difficulties faced by many communities with in america. This scene references times were slavery was widely used through out america and this is a powerful scene because it has put black women in the seats of the rich who were the ones to use slaves. the costume is very lacy as the lace trade