Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid"
English | ISBN: 1914420098 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1914420098 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, music listening increased as people used it to help to counter the psychological fallout of lockdown and reduce its effects of isolation, restriction and boredom. At the same time, concerts and other musical events moved online, and even when lockdown eased, social distancing meant that group musical and cultural events took on a different format.
With a focus on contemporary Black music, this book takes a deep dive into a few of the various forms that popular culture took over this period, including Kano's Newham Talks series; Steve McQueen's BBC anthology
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