1. Sustaining Black Music and Culture During COVID-19 : #Verzuz and Club Quarantine
- Author
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Niya Pickett Miller and Niya Pickett Miller
- Subjects
- Black people--Music--Social aspects--United States, African Americans--Music--Social aspects, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Social aspects, Popular music--Social aspects--United States
- Abstract
Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine argues that Instagram is a premier digital leisure space to celebrate and promote Black American culture and identity, particularly evidenced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as the United States grappled with mandated shelter-in-place orders. Club Quarantine (CQ) and Verzuz emerged as highly successful Black music-listening events streamed on Instagram Live, collectively ushering Black (techno)culture through a once-in-a-generation pandemic and beyond. Contributors to this collection explore the communicative and cultural significance of these events as respite from social isolation and as a rearticulated space for Black cultural engagement in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased racial tensions in the United States.
- Published
- 2021