Overview

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.

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Author:   Niya Pickett Miller ,  Mtali Banda ,  Janée N. Burkhalter ,  Kirstin Cheers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781793645067

ISBN 10:   179364506
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   22 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: One Nation under a (socially distant) Groove Eletra S. Gilchrist-Petty Chapter 1: Introduction Niya Pickett Miller Chapter 2: ‘Sisters in the name of Love’: The Rhetorical Construction of Sisterhood in the Verzuz Challenges between Gladys Knight vs. Patti Labelle And Erykah Badu vs. Jill Scott Goyland Williams & Mtalika Banda Chapter 3: Don’t Take it Personal: Perceptions of Authenticity, Envy and Competitiveness in the Brandy v. Monica Verzuz Battle Aisha Damali Lockridge and Janée N. Burkhalter Chapter 4: The Way We Were: How Black Women Created Space with Verzuz Kirstin Cheers Chapter 5: DJ’s Gig: Affective Hip Hop Culture and Affordances of Participatory Platforms during a Global Pandemic June Mia Chapter 6: Old Hits Verzuz New Technology: How a Pandemic Ushered Legacy Artists into the Clout Economy Jabari Evans Chapter 7: Black and Quarantined: Celebrating Black Identity During COVID-19 via Instagram Katrina Overby, Gheni Platenburg, and Niya Pickett Miller Chapter 8: The Culture Wins: Continuing Black Cultural Traditions through Verzuz Karl Lyn Chapter 9: Conclusion Niya Pickett Miller About the Contributors

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Niya Pickett Miller is assistant professor of communication studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University.

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