Collaborating in Isolation: Assessing the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Patterns of Collaborative Behavior Among Working Musicians

Frontiers in Psychology

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Noah R. Fram¹  Visda Goudarzi²  Hiroko Terasawa³  Jonathan Berger¹ 

[1] Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Music Department, Stanford University, United States;Department of Audio Arts and Acoustics, Columbia College Chicago, United States;Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba

关键词: social media;    musical collaboration;    technology use;    COVID-19 pandemic;    musical genre;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.674246

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The Covid-19 pandemic severely limited collaboration among musicians in rehearsal and ensemble performance, and demanded radical shifts in collaborative practices. Understanding the nature of these changes in music creators' patterns of collaboration, as well as how musicians shifted prioritizations and adapted their use of the available technologies, can offer invaluable insights into the resilience and importance of different aspects of musical collaboration. In addition, assessing changes in the collaboration networks among music creators can improve the current understanding of genre and style formation and evolution. We used an internet survey distributed to music creators, including performers, composers, producers, and engineers, all active before and during the pandemic, to assess their perceptions of how their music, collaborative practice, and use of technology were impacted by shelter-in-place orders associated with Covid-19, as well as how they adapted over the course of the pandemic. This survey was followed by Zoom interviews with a subset of participants. Along with confirming previous results showing increased reliance on nostalgia for musical inspiration, we found that participants' collaborative behaviors were surprisingly resilient to pandemic-related changes. In addition, participant responses appeared to be driven by a relatively small number of underlying factors, representing approaches to musical collaboration such as musical extroversion or musical introversion , inspiration clusters such as activist musicking , and style or genre clusters.

【 授权许可】

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