Publication: Journal of World Popular Music, Special Issue: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Music Industries of the Global North

Special Issue: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Music Industries of the Global North

A new edited collection was published in the Journal of World Popular Music. The collection is being launched at this years IASPM conference in Liverpool and is available now. It focuses specifically on the impacts of Covid on the music industries of the Global North.
More information here.

Introduction: Covid Recovery and Early Covid Music Literature
Paul Carr

Articles

Birmingham and the (International) Business of Live Music in Times of COVID-19
Adam Behr, Craig Hamilton and Patrycja Rozbicka

Playing Out: Exploring How Liverpool’s Live Music Sector Adapted to Survive the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mathew Flynn and Richard Anderson

Tourism-Dependent Local Music Ecosystems under COVID-19: The Case of Lisbon’s Fado Music Scene
Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros and Maria Teresa Lacerda

New Normal or Old Problems? “Hibernation” and Planning for Music Careers in the Victorian Music Industries during COVID-19
Fabian Cannizzo and Catherine Strong

To Be Announced: How Long Can German Live Music Venues Survive the Lockdown?
Johannes Krause, Jan Üblacker, Katharina Huseljić, Niklas Blömeke and Heiko Rühl

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Welsh Music Industries: A Strategic Partnership with Welsh Government
Paul Carr

The “First Ones to Close and Last Ones to Re-Open”: Music Venues, COVID-19 and the Handling of the Crisis
Robin Kuchar, Maxine Frey, Julia Gooß and Tim Mertens

COVID-19 and British Jazz Musicians: From Preliminal to a Postliminal World
Elina Hytönen-Ng

Ethnographic Explorations of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Sociality and Spatiality in a Swiss Live Music Venue
Jelena Gligorijević

The Impact of COVID-19 on Virtual Guitar Communities: An Immersive Netnography
Daniel A. Lee