Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from the global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural organizations are dealing with short-, medium-, and long-term threats to livelihoods under lockdown.
This book aims at filling the literature gap about the consequences of one of the hardest crises – COVID-19 – severely impacting all the fields of the CCIs. With a focus on European countries and taking into account the evolving and unstable context caused by the pandemic still in progress, this book investigates the first reactions and actual strategies of CCIs’ actors, government bodies, and cultural institutions facing the COVID-19 crisis and the potential consequences of these emergency strategies for the future of the CCIs. Solutions adopted during the repeated lockdowns by CCIs’ actors could originate new forms of cultural consumption and/or new innovative market strategies. This book brings together a constellation of contributors to analyze the cultural sector as it seeks to emerge from this existential challenge.
The global perspectives presented in this book provide research-based evidence to understand and reflect on an unprecedented period, allowing reflective practitioners to learn and develop from a range of real-world cases. The book will also be of interest to researchers, academics, and students with a particular interest in the management of cultural and creative organizations and crisis management.
Author(s): Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete, Andrej Srakar
Series: Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 298
City: London
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
List of contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic and the culturalindustries: Emergency strategies and a renewed interest forbuilding a better future?
SECTION 1: Regional and national policies: The impact of theCOVID-19 crisis on the cultural industries
1. The COVID-19 pandemic and cultural industries in the EU and in the United Kingdom: A perfect storm
2. The COVID-19 pandemic and cultural industries in France: Cultural policy challenged
3. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the field of Finnish cultural industries: Revealing and challenging policy structures
4. The COVID-19 pandemic and the cultural policy response in Slovakia
SECTION 2: Cultural workers: Resilience and organization duringthe COVID-19 pandemic
5. The COVID-19 pandemic and cultural workers: Fight, flight or freeze in lockdown?
6. The COVID-19 pandemic, cultural work, and resilience
7. The COVID-19 pandemic, coworking spaces, and cultural events: The case of Italy
8. Freelance classical musicians in Austria and the COVID-19 pandemic
9. Artists in the COVID-19 pandemic: Use of lockdown time, skill development, and audience perceptions in Colombia and Spain
SECTION 3: Institutional strategies: First responses in the arts andculture sectors to the strict lockdown of March 2020
10. The COVID-19 pandemic and structural change in the museum sector: Insights from Italy
11. The COVID-19 pandemic and cultural industries in Spain: Early impacts of lockdown
12. The COVID-19 pandemic and cultural industries in the Nordic region: Emerging strategies in film and drama productions
13. The COVID-19 pandemic and cultural industries in the Czech Republic
14. The COVID-19 pandemic and the European screen industry: The role of national screen agencies
15. Orchestrating change: The future of orchestras post COVID-19
Conclusions: The legacy of COVID-19 for the cultural industries
Index
