It is not all about the toilet paper, culture matters: Creative live music responses to the Covid-19 lockdown

It is not all about the toilet paper, culture matters: Creative live music responses to the Covid-19 lockdown

As social distancing and self-isolation become a 2020 lifestyle mainstream in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, an emphasis on our physical needs is often apparent in our surroundings. Finding toilet paper, long-lasting food products, and antibacterial products in supermarkets, is a particularly difficult task. And, as we witness a shift in popular demands, are the ways we perceive value changing too? How does this affect our leisure and cultural everyday practices?

These are some of the questions I explored in this article, jointly written with Dr Asya Draganova from Birmingham City University, and Beth Hogan – a freelance production manager.

You can read the full article here.

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