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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.
List 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 Cult
About the author
Niya Pickett Miller is assistant professor of communication studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University.Jabari Evans is assistant professor of race and media at the University of South Carolina.Niya Pickett Miller is assistant professor of communication studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University.
Summary
This book explores how pivotal Instagram Live events Club Quarantine and Verzuz have provided respite from social isolation and a rearticulated space for Black cultural engagement in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased racial tensions in the United States.
