Cultural and artistic citizenship in classical music
Book chapter
Wimmer, C. and Dromey, C. 2023. Cultural and artistic citizenship in classical music. in: Dromey, C. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology New York Routledge. pp. 108–118
Chapter title | Cultural and artistic citizenship in classical music |
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Authors | Wimmer, C. and Dromey, C. |
Abstract | To write about citizenship and music in the wake of a pandemic that turned the entire cultural scene upside down is to give the subject an unnervingly new and topical significance. The events of early 2020 abruptly uprooted the assumptions and working practices of concert organisers, musicians, and everyone involved in classical music and music-making at large. No one at the time could predict what the future would hold; indeed, much uncertainty remains. What will the long-term cultural effects of the pandemic be? Will audience numbers recover? Can any positive lessons be learned from the emergency measures that were introduced, such as the fast-tracked adoption of live-streaming or how the industries were forced to pay more than lip service to health and hygiene? Often, remembering history can help answer contemporary questions; a search for comparable cultural crises, in order to learn from past recoveries. Today’s contexts may be new, but the precarities that venues, orchestras, and their musicians face, and the anxiety many feel about the future, are not. Similarly, perceptions from within these industries were already generally pessimistic before the pandemic. In Europe, at least, scepticism of political establishments that have long taken the music industries for granted goes hand in hand with a financially oriented brand of public discourse, in which the industries’ economic “contribution” (e.g. to GDP) and needs (e.g. subsidies) leave little room for appreciating how art and culture can meaningfully improve people’s lives. Adopting a |
Sustainable Development Goals | 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Music group |
Page range | 108–118 |
Book title | The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology |
Editors | Dromey, C. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | New York |
Series | Routledge Music Companions |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9780367488246 |
Electronic | 9781003042983 |
Paperback | 9780367488253 |
Copyright Year | 2024 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 18 Sep 2023 |
19 Sep 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | Jul 2023 |
Deposited | 10 Oct 2023 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003042983-13 |
Related Output | |
Is part of | The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology |
Is part of | https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Applied-Musicology/Dromey/p/book/9780367488246 |
Language | English |
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