{"product_id":"like-lockdown-never-happened-isbn-9781914420092","title":"Like Lockdown Never Happened","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnalyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen everyday life moved online during the COVID-19 lockdowns, music and art took on a renewed importance. For millions, dancehall, lovers rock, rap, grime and UK drill became the soundtrack to this pandemic time as geographic and sonic borders blurred and interwove.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a deep dive into the Black popular music and culture that emerged during the pandemic, including Kano's \u003ci\u003eNewham Talks\u003c\/i\u003e series, Steve McQueen's BBC anthology \u003ci\u003eSmall Axe\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Verzuz DJ Battle series,\u003ci\u003e Like Lockdown Never Happened\u003c\/i\u003e explores the way that Black joy and creative expression sustained us, shaping our experience of lockdown and helping us counter its isolation and restriction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Zak Addae-Kodua, presenter of XConversation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite’s reflections on living through the Covid-19 pandemic offers an interlude of hope when we most needed it. She reminds us of 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 get us through this crisis, as it did with past crises and will do so again in the future. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Rita Gayle, University of Birmingham, UK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Zak Addae-Kodua,\u003c\/b\u003e co-presenter of XConversation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Rita Gayle,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Birmingham\u003cb\u003eJoy White \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of \u003ci\u003eUrban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTerraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner-City\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written for \u003ci\u003eThe Quietus, The Conversation, Prospect, Red Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoogle Arts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303383650533,"sku":"NP9781914420092","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781914420092.jpg?v=1767731476","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/like-lockdown-never-happened-isbn-9781914420092","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}