‘Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture during COVID’

‘Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture during COVID’

Friday 15 November 2024, 1pm -2pm

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities,

All welcome

Join us in welcoming Dr Joy White, who will be speaking to us about her latest book, Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture during COVID. The talk will consider the ways in which contemporary Black musical forms helped us to pass the time during the early days of lockdown, operating as a site of connection, identity, and social commentary. After Dr. White’s talk, there will be a Q&A session so please come prepared with questions.

Biography: Dr Joy White (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City. Her previous work includes Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise, one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of grime music. Recent publications include Growing up under the influence: A sonic genealogy of Grime, and (with Jonathan Ilan) Ethnographer Soundclash: A UK rap and grime story. Joy has also written for The Quietus, The Conversation, Trench, Google Arts + Culture, Red Pepper and Prospect.

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