Music industry in crisis: The impact of a novel coronavirus on touring metal bands, promoters, and venues

Messick, Kyle J.

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“…These special transferable qualities can also play a role in how the destruction or loss of an item is perceived (Bloom et al, 2010). The loss of the sacred in the context of metal music culture has not been previously explored, however, parallels can be drawn from the devastating psychological losses felt by touring metal musicians following the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in the temporary end of concert tours and live performances globally, effectively ending a fundamental part of their lifestyle that was crucial for mood maintenance and meaning (Messick, 2021).…”

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The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

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Jong²,

Mulukom³

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Objective: To examine if the functions of the nontheistic sacred in a secular context are consistent with previous studies of the sacred in religious contexts. Methods: Two experiments examined the psychological functions of the nontheistic sacred within a secular context – metal music culture. The first experiment examined music as a form of nontheistic sacred through a comparison of death metal fans (n=89) listening to death metal or hard rock. The second experiment examined how some metal cultural artefacts were perceived as sacred by metal fans (n=52), and how their loss or defilement was experienced when compared to non-sacred artefacts.Results: The first experiment found that the death metal music was perceived as more sacred than hard rock music to the metal community, it promoted higher levels of positive affect, and it was associated with significantly higher levels of prosocial behavioural intentions, social relatedness, mood maintenance, and self-awareness, with no differences in empathy and negative affect. The second experiment found that acts of desecration of sacred items, when compared to non-sacred items, led to a higher state of anger and the loss of the items led to significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms and anxiety. Conclusions: The two experiments present evidence that the nontheistic sacred is experienced within the secular context of metal music in terms of functions and effects consistent with previous literature exploring the sacred in religious contexts.

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The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

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Mulukom³

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“…These active modes of engagement extended to music making. While many bands and artists cancelled concerts and postponed releases of new music during lockdown (Messick 2020), amateurs took the stage as collective co-creators. Instead of fully ceasing musical activities deemed effective for psychosocial coping (Kiernan et al 2021), 83% of choirs, 86% of dancing groups, and 60% of instrumental ensembles adopted virtual formats (Draper and Dingle 2021).…”

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Afterword: Coping through crisis with coronamusic

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2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 was accompanied by a mental health epidemic creating an extensive demand for safe, widely accessible, and highly individualized coping strategies. Engaging with music in new and innovative ways became the potentially most frequent and effective solitary and virtually-collective leisure activity for maintaining psychological wellbeing during lockdown. Emerging research findings that interest in corona-themed repertoire—coined "coronamusic"—became the strongest predictor of socio-emotional coping efficacy point towards a potentially adaptive function of thematically tailored musical innovations in human coping behaviour on historical and evolutionary timescales. This afterword starts with an exemplifying overview of the musical and societal responses to the coronavirus in Denmark. Next, based on a review of the emerging research literature on the role of music for pandemic coping, a model is proposed of key structural and contextual features of the coronamusic phenomenon. This may pave the way for including musical measures in collective and individual toolboxes for managing future societal crises.

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“…Previous studies from a psychological perspective conducted by Messick (2020) indicate d that the Covid-19 pandemic significantly impacted music groups, managers, promoters, agencies, and record labels. Musicians report the negative affective and financial i mpact of the pandemic.…”

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The young generation has a very important role in promoting tourism. The efforts of this young generation cannot be separated considering that sustainable tourism is developing very rapidly in various tourism activities. They can do environmental conservation and participate in improving the welfare of local communities. Social media and the younger generation are the two things that have the greatest potential to help in the publication and information on tourism. This research was conducted at Ciletuh Geopark, Sukabumi Regency, West Java Province. The research method used is descriptive qualitative by collecting primary data including interviews, focus group discussions and field observations. The results show that the role of the younger generation in using social media for sustainable tourism development is important. They are aware of the benefits that social media will provide if used wisely. However, there are still obstacles faced, namely not yet the maximum use of social media so that it has not been able to produce maximum promotion due to limited innovation. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the young generation in using social media to support sustainable tourism in the Ciletuh Geopark, Sukabumi, West Java Province, as an effort to develop sustainable tourism.

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Music industry in crisis: The impact of a novel coronavirus on touring metal bands, promoters, and venues

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

Afterword: Coping through crisis with coronamusic

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