Beschreibung:
Ian Woodward is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Syddansk Universitet, Denmark. He is an internationally recognised scholar in the sociology of consumption and material cultures, the sociology of cosmopolitanism, and aspects of cultural production and consumption in contemporary music economies. Most recently, he was co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, and his books include Labels: Making Independent Music, The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism, The Festivalization of Culture, and Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age.
This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain conditions by creating, designing and curating new objects and events, and through making alternative combinations of practices and spaces.
Introduction: Making sense of culture and music space during and beyond the pandemic