Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19

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Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19 is written by Niya Pickett Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978772262 (ISBN 10) and 9781978772267 (ISBN 13).

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.