Flynn, Mathew and Anderson, Richard
(2021)
Playing In: Exploring the effect of COVID-19 on music makers across the Liverpool City Region.
Journal of Music, Health and Wellbeing, Autumn (Musick).
Abstract
This article reports on the results of an online survey of 175 music makers from the Liverpool City Region (LCR) undertaken in late summer 2020, five months into the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time restrictions eased from a full ‘stay at home’ lockdown, however restrictions remained in place which prevented live music performances or nightclub events taking place. The following analysis of quantitative and qualitative data responses focused on five key areas in which local musicians were impacted: the financial and social effects arising from the curtailment of live performance; how musicians engaged with live streaming; how being ‘locked down’ affected creativity when unable to physically collaborate with other musicians; the ways in which musicians maintain online engagement; and the effectiveness of available economic support. The data findings demonstrate that the unparalleled and abrupt cessation of an entire cultural sector’s activities had a profound impact on musicians in the LCR. We demonstrate how internet services did, to some extent, provide a form of respite, the study concludes by emphasising the vital importance of being in-the-room-together for virtually all musical activities. Without this sociability, music’s inherent social and economic value is severely curtailed.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Musicians, Liverpool, COVID-19 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2021 07:50 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:26 |
| Open Access URL: | https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-2056... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3140527 |
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