The future of the cultural workforce: Perspectives from early career arts professionals on the challenges and future of the cultural industries in the context of COVID-19

Shaughnessy, Caitlin; Perkins, Rosie; Spiro, Neta; Waddell, George; Campbell, Aifric; Williamon, Aaron

doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100296

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“…Indeed, it lent meaning to these musical interactions, particularly as they were personalized using the MiMiC approach as part of patient-centered care. While we fully acknowledge the small size of the sample and the context-specific nature of this study, the findings resonate with other recent research highlighting the personal commitment of early career artists to becoming artistic citizens engaged in socially responsible practice (Shaughnessy et al, 2022). The experiences and values detailed in the accounts above also align with Gaunt et al’s (2021) concept of the musician as a maker in society, presenting personalized music-making in health settings as a forum for musical connection and empathy, communicative and musical versatility, and the development of a sense of a socially oriented musical self.…”

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confidence: 84%

Becoming the right musician for the job: Versatility, connectedness, and professional identities during personalized, online music-making in hospital maternity wards

Shaughnessy

Hall²,

Perkins

2023

Musicae Scientiae

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The beneficial potential for music in hospital contexts is well established, with research showing that music can promote patient well-being and support recovery. However, less attention has been paid to the ways in which musicians’ practices and professional identities are informed by working in hospital settings. As arts-and-health approaches continue to proliferate, it is essential to recognize the values, emotional labor, and skills associated with these approaches through understanding the experiences of practitioners. As part of an international collaboration led by Hanze University in the Netherlands, the ProMiMiC project explores the professional development of musicians and nurses through person-centered music-making in hospital settings. The current study focused on five conservatoire-trained musicians’ delivery of personalized music-making via Zoom in a hospital maternity setting in London during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their experiences of adapting to the new context, and the impacts on their personal and professional development, were explored using reflective journals, group discussions, and semi-structured interviews. The data were interpreted using the theoretical lens of vocational habitus to examine the skills and dispositions required to be the right musician for this job. Qualitative synthesis revealed the musicians’ developing musical values as they adapted to the online maternity setting, highlighting the centrality of communicative and musical versatility as well as the ability to connect and empathize through music. The findings offer insights into possible ways of supporting emerging music practitioners in healthcare settings and emphasize the imperative for higher music education to prepare and train musicians for this type of work.

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confidence: 84%

Becoming the right musician for the job: Versatility, connectedness, and professional identities during personalized, online music-making in hospital maternity wards

Shaughnessy

Hall²,

Perkins

2023

Musicae Scientiae

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“…The current market environment has become very dynamic due to various factors like globalization, creativity and innovations, technological advancements, disruptive technologies, and highly increased competition (Das et al, 2022;López-Igual & Rodríguez-Modroño, 2020;Nolan et al, 2019). To cater to such dynamics of the market, organizations are becoming highly proactive, adaptable, and flexible to the new trends, culture, technologies, and working methods prevailing in the current market scenario (Barbe & Hussler, 2019;Kelly et al, 2022;Peixoto & Temmes, 2019;Shaughnessy et al, 2022). To perform in such a market organization requires a highly efficient workforce that can easily adapt and work efficiently in such an environment (Daud & Wan Hanafi, 2020;Frazier et al, 2019).…”

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Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Chadha

Gupta

Tewari

2022

Econ. Bus. Account. Soc. Rev

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Nowadays, it becomes more important to produce rightly skilled individuals with the skills to survive and flourish in the industry. This paper focuses on the skill set that the management institutes are developing and how well that skill set is catering to the current era's IT industry. Such a sample population covers all the IT firms of India, registered as authorized companies and management institutes of the country that follow the overall accepted curriculum for management studies. A sample of 54 respondents was taken. The survey was done, questionnaires were floated to gather data, and further IBM SPSS was used for statistical analysis and to interpret the results. This research reveals a huge gap between the skills required and the skill set provided. It also brings out the key factors to address to fill the gap. Not only the factors but also the best possible methods to overcome such gaps have been brought to light in this paper. It gives an insight into the industry's dynamics and how important it is to cope with them for survival.

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“…North American research flagged the need for innovation in the industry, concluding that to survive post-Covid recession “symphony orchestras will need to practice cost-cutting measures, while reinventing themselves through innovative programmes, including increased streaming platforms” (Pompe & Tamburri, 2023, p. 1). Similarly, UK research highlighted the importance of “widening audiences and participation to strengthen the cultural industries” and “maintaining adaptive and hybrid creative models” (Shaughnessy et al, 2022, pp. 5–6).…”

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“…The authors argued that “Covid-19 is an emergency that exacerbates the precarious structural conditions of the sector” and called for “long-term structural changes in the sector and its working conditions” (p. 122). Interviews with early-career arts workers in the United Kingdom revealed that “pandemic disruptions accentuated the precarity of their professional lives” (Shaughnessy et al, 2022, p. 4). Similar issues are being reported from the United States, with research into community radio highlighting the impacts of the pandemic on practitioners:the pandemic and the entrenched inequalities it has revealed has demonstrated that our experiences of the pandemic were and are hugely diverse, determined by financial and physical security or precarity, the nature of our work, whether we had children or others to be cared for.…”

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The impacts of Covid-19 lockdowns on professional and personal lives of freelance creative collaborative musicians

Zhukov

Barrett

Creech

2023

Research Studies in Music Education

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The global pandemic has severely disrupted the performing arts sector, with research documenting economic, professional, and health impacts on musicians. The psychological effects of lockdowns have been recognized, but little is known regarding their impact on freelance creative collaborative artists. This qualitative case study uses a resilience lens to report the perspectives of freelance creative collaborative musicians from the city of Melbourne, the Australian city which experienced the greatest period of lockdown in the country. Three main themes were identified: professional impacts (loss of work, loss of artistic identity, professional coping strategies), personal impacts (lockdown stressors, personal coping strategies, relationships), and future professional outlook (developing new professional skills and directions, positive and negative future outlooks). The findings demonstrate these musicians’ resilience in spite of difficult circumstances, resulting in positive adaptations and personal growth.

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The future of the cultural workforce: Perspectives from early career arts professionals on the challenges and future of the cultural industries in the context of COVID-19

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

Becoming the right musician for the job: Versatility, connectedness, and professional identities during personalized, online music-making in hospital maternity wards

Becoming the right musician for the job: Versatility, connectedness, and professional identities during personalized, online music-making in hospital maternity wards

Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

The impacts of Covid-19 lockdowns on professional and personal lives of freelance creative collaborative musicians

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