"Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" @Dnice #ClubQuarantine: Digitally Mediating Ritualistic Leisure Spaces during Isolation. (3rd March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kelly Pryor, Brandy N.; Outley, Corliss
• Is Part Of: Leisure sciences. Volume 43:Number 1/2(2021)
• Page Start: 330
• Page End: 342
• Publication Date: 2021-03-03
• Subjects: Black aesthetic -- hope theory -- cultural preservation -- well-being -- performative healing COVID-19; Leisure -- Periodicals; 306.4812
• DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2020.1774826
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-0400

Abstract

Abstract: Drawing on the DJ's divination as hope purveyor and healer, this commentary examines the trendiest club scene during the COVID-19 and worldwide social distancing—#ClubQuarantine. It explores how DJ and producer Derrick "D-Nice" Jones uses Instagram Live to reproduce and perform hope through dual components of his musical sets: 1) participatory/performative healing and 2) cultural preservation. Situating this DJ within the Black Aesthetic, these two elements are explored in conversation with Kelly's (2013 ) performance of hope theory. This commentary provides understanding for leisure scholars about the flow of Black visual and aesthetic culture and how the house party or the club can be a space of healing and cultural preservation —even in the face of a global health and economic crisis.