Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid
Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.

How Black music and culture shaped our experiences during the first 18 months of COVID-19. As lockdowns restricted movement and social interactions, music became a vital tool for countering the psychological impact of isolation, offering solace and connection.

Like Lockdown Never Happened explores the surge in music listening, the shift of concerts to online platforms, and the evolution of cultural events in a socially distanced world. It focuses on contemporary Black music and its various expressions during this time, featuring notable phenomena such as Kano's Newham Talks, Steve McQueen's BBC anthology Small Axe, the Verzuz DJ Battle series, TikTok's Don't Rush Challenge, and the radio station TheresNoSignal, among others.

By analysing both chronological and kairotic time during the pandemic, the book highlights how Black joy and sonic Black geographies were essential to the cultural landscape of this era. It underscores the significance of Black music and creative expression as they soundtracked and sustained us through unprecedented challenges.

Key themes and features include:

- The role of Black music in combating isolation and boredom during lockdown
- A deep dive into significant cultural events and online experiences
- Insights into how Black creativity shaped the pandemic narrative
- Exploration of Black joy and cultural resilience in challenging times

This compelling analysis offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Black culture in our collective response to the pandemic, making it a valuable read for anyone interested in music, culture, and social history.
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Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid
Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.

How Black music and culture shaped our experiences during the first 18 months of COVID-19. As lockdowns restricted movement and social interactions, music became a vital tool for countering the psychological impact of isolation, offering solace and connection.

Like Lockdown Never Happened explores the surge in music listening, the shift of concerts to online platforms, and the evolution of cultural events in a socially distanced world. It focuses on contemporary Black music and its various expressions during this time, featuring notable phenomena such as Kano's Newham Talks, Steve McQueen's BBC anthology Small Axe, the Verzuz DJ Battle series, TikTok's Don't Rush Challenge, and the radio station TheresNoSignal, among others.

By analysing both chronological and kairotic time during the pandemic, the book highlights how Black joy and sonic Black geographies were essential to the cultural landscape of this era. It underscores the significance of Black music and creative expression as they soundtracked and sustained us through unprecedented challenges.

Key themes and features include:

- The role of Black music in combating isolation and boredom during lockdown
- A deep dive into significant cultural events and online experiences
- Insights into how Black creativity shaped the pandemic narrative
- Exploration of Black joy and cultural resilience in challenging times

This compelling analysis offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Black culture in our collective response to the pandemic, making it a valuable read for anyone interested in music, culture, and social history.
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Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid

Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid

by Joy White
Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid

Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid

by Joy White

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Overview

Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.

How Black music and culture shaped our experiences during the first 18 months of COVID-19. As lockdowns restricted movement and social interactions, music became a vital tool for countering the psychological impact of isolation, offering solace and connection.

Like Lockdown Never Happened explores the surge in music listening, the shift of concerts to online platforms, and the evolution of cultural events in a socially distanced world. It focuses on contemporary Black music and its various expressions during this time, featuring notable phenomena such as Kano's Newham Talks, Steve McQueen's BBC anthology Small Axe, the Verzuz DJ Battle series, TikTok's Don't Rush Challenge, and the radio station TheresNoSignal, among others.

By analysing both chronological and kairotic time during the pandemic, the book highlights how Black joy and sonic Black geographies were essential to the cultural landscape of this era. It underscores the significance of Black music and creative expression as they soundtracked and sustained us through unprecedented challenges.

Key themes and features include:

- The role of Black music in combating isolation and boredom during lockdown
- A deep dive into significant cultural events and online experiences
- Insights into how Black creativity shaped the pandemic narrative
- Exploration of Black joy and cultural resilience in challenging times

This compelling analysis offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Black culture in our collective response to the pandemic, making it a valuable read for anyone interested in music, culture, and social history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781914420108
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 10/01/2024
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Joy White is Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise and Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner-City. She has also written for The Quietus, The Conversation, Prospect, Red Pepper and Google Arts & Culture.

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"This read becomes the metronome taking us on a journey through the musical asylum we created during lockdown. Dr Joy simplifies the complexities of Black music culture whilst carefully and consciously traversing its nuances. Joy continues to be a voice for the ends and a cornerstone for the Afro-diasporic community."
– Zak Addae-Kodua, co-presenter of XConversation

"White's reflections on living through the Covid-19 pandemic offer an interlude of hope when we most needed it. She reminds us the importance of contemporary Black music and its enduring capacity to make spaces for expression and potentiality for change despite the dangers of its commodification. Black music helped us get through this crisis, as it did with past crises and will do so again in the future." 
– Rita Gayle, University of Birmingham

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