Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Making sense of culture and music space during and beyond the pandemic / Jo Haynes and Ian Woodward -- Part I. Affects. Festival atmospheres : social, spatial, and material explorations of physically distanced Festivals / Britt Swartjes and Femke Vandenberg ; How live is live? COVID-19, live music and online performances / Ben Green, Andy Bennett, Paula Guerra, Frances Howard, Ana Olivera, Sofia Sousa and Ernesta Sofija ; 'Like a winter without Christmas' : Interaction rituals and the disruption of the Roskilde Festival / Annette Michelsen la Cour, Mette Kousholt and Emilie Kirstine Holse -- Part II. Infrastructures. Curating listening : The cultural production of a (commercial) experience / Raphaël Nowak ; Reconceiving spatiality and value in the live music industries in response to COVID-19 / Iain Taylor, Sarah Raine and Craig Hamilton ; Out of office : The broader implications of changing spaces and places in arts-based work during the COVID-19 pandemic / Rachel Skaggs, Erin J. Hoppe and Molly Jo Burke ; The sounds of silence : Concerts, musicians, and the COVID-19 pandemic / Timothy Dowd, Yun Tai and Dmitri Zaras ; Self-organisation in musicians' collective workspaces before, during and after COVID-19 : A model for moving forward? / Yosha Wijngaarten --

Part III: Spaces. A sonic paradise in the countryside: Pop-rock festivals as drivers of creative tourism development in small cities and rural areas in the post-pandemic era / Paula Guerra and Ana Oliveira ; Refiguring pathologized festival spaces : Governance, risk and creativity / Ian Woodward, Jo Haynes and Magda Mogilnicka ; Experimenting with adulthood in the time of pandemic : The 18th edition of the Sacrum Profanum festival in Cracow / Karolina Golemo ; The island of freedom on the Vltava / Pavla Jonssonová ; The moral complexity of organising a civically engaged festival during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Ivana Rapoš Božič -- Part IV. Futures. Unknown futures : Towards a more resilient Dutch popular music sector / Frank Kimenai, Pauwke Berkers, Nyota Kanyemesha and Joost Vervoort ; At the juncture of the liminal and the neo-liberal : Can the smaller, independent commercial music festival survive into the future? / Aileen Dillane ; Regions in recovery? The significance of festivals for regenerating and reimagining regional community life ; Michelle Duffy and Judith Mair ; Music missionaries : How Dutch music festivals utilised the pandemic to bounce forward / Martijn Mulder.

"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. By examining contexts and practices of remaking culture and music, it goes beyond being a chronicle of how the pandemic disrupted cultural life and livelihoods. The book also raises crucial questions about the forms and dynamics of post-pandemic spaces of culture and music. Main themes include the affective and embodied dimensions that shape the experience, organisation and representation of cultural and musical activity; the restructuring of industries and practices of work and cultural production; the transformation of spaces of cultural expression and community; and the uncertainty and resilience of future culture and music. This collection will be instrumental for researchers, practitioners and students studying the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of cultural production in the fields of cultural sociology, cultural and creative industries research, festival and event and studies, and music studies. Its inter-disciplinary nature makes it beneficial reading for anyone interested in what has happened to culture and music during the global pandemic and beyond"--