Remaking Culture and Music Spaces : Affects, Infrastructures, Futures (Paperback)

Introduction: Making sense of culture and music space during and beyond the pandemic

Part I: Affects

1. Festival atmospheres: social, spatial, and material explorations of physically distanced festivals

2. How live is live? COVID-19, live music and online performances

3. ‘Like a winter without Christmas’: Interaction rituals and the disruption of the Roskilde Festival

Part II: Infrastructures

4. Curating listening: The cultural production of a (commercial) experience

5. Reconceiving spatiality and value in the live music industries in response to COVID-19

6. Out of office: The broader implications of changing spaces and places in arts-based work during the COVID-19 pandemic

7. The sounds of silence: Concerts, musicians, and the COVID-19 pandemic

8. Self-organisation in musicians’ collective workspaces before, during and after COVID-19: A model for moving forward?

Part III: Spaces

9. A sonic paradise in the countryside: Pop-rock festivals as drivers of creative tourism development in small cities and rural areas in the post-pandemic era

10. Refiguring pathologised festival spaces: Governance, risk and creativity

11. Experimenting with adulthood in the time of pandemic: The 18th edition of the Sacrum Profanum festival in Cracow

12. The island of freedom on the Vltava

13. The moral complexity of organising a civically engaged festival during the COVID-19 pandemic

Part IV: Futures

14. Unknown futures: Towards a more resilient Dutch popular music sector

15. At the juncture of the liminal and the neo-liberal: Can the smaller, independent commercial music festival survive into the future?

16. Regions in recovery? The significance of festivals for regenerating and reimagining regional community life

17. Music missionaries: How Dutch music festivals utilised the pandemic to bounce forward