Crisis as a Catalyst for Change: COVID-19, Spatiality and the UK Live Music Industry

Taylor, Iain A. and Raine, Sarah and Hamilton, Craig (2021) Crisis as a Catalyst for Change: COVID-19, Spatiality and the UK Live Music Industry. IASPM@Journal, 11 (1). pp. 6-21. ISSN 2079-3871

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Abstract

Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, live music spaces – and the practices which produce them as economically viable – have found themselves in crisis. In spite of a UK government announcement on the 25th of July 2020 which allocated £2.25 million to support 150 music venues across the country, the processes of allocation, the conditions under which this emergency funding is allocated, and capacity to secure medium-to-long-term sustainability of the live music industries in the UK, remains unclear. In this paper, we present a Lefebvrian analysis of live music, highlighting the complex ways in which space is produced and consumed within a live music environment. By extending this framing to consider Lefebvre’s conceptualisation of dominated and appropriated space, we argue that the economic viability of live music stems from its spatiality, and that ongoing responses to the crisis require greater sensitivity to the spatial practices of music production and consumption.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.3en
Dates:
DateEvent
1 September 2021Accepted
21 October 2021Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords: COVID-19; UK live music; Lefebvre; spatiality; transformation
Subjects: CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham School of Media
Depositing User: Craig Hamilton
Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2021 10:39
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 16:17
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12320

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