Naslov
Crisis Management in the Field: Negotiating the Pandemic During Fieldwork with Wedding Musicians in Zagreb

Autori
Halužan, Tanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts of the 46th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music / Szego, Kati ; Sardo, Suzana - Lisabon : UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, 2022, 111-111

ISBN
978-972-789-782-7

Skup
46th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM 2022)

Mjesto i datum
Lisabon, Portugal, 21.07.2022. - 27.07.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
Wedding musicians, pandemic, crisis, music labour

Sažetak
The pandemic changed everything. In Croatia, where weddings are regarded as one of the most important life-cycle customs, during the Covid pandemic they have been (and continue to be) simultaneously recognized as high-risk events. The necessary but severe restrictions imposed on wedding gatherings has affected everyone involved in the great machinery of the wedding industry: not only wedding couples and their long lists of invited guests (and PhD students starting their ethnographic research), but also musicians who, at the beginning of the pandemic faced sudden cancellations of nearly all long-planned performances and a subsequent, continuing severe shortage of work. More than a year later, significant modifications in their working possibilities and performance contexts are still evident, further underlining the insecurity, precariousness, and financial instability as persistent and salient features of their work and working lives. Zoom interviews were still possible, however, especially given that musicians had much more free time than usual. Through ethnographic insights and media discourse analysis, in this paper I present musicians’ responses to the imposed crisis and consider the influence of profound social change on their labour and also on their musical practices. Descriptions of lived experiences from the present moment demonstrate the many ways the corona crisis has changed how we think, write about and comprehend music, musicians, and their roles in the specific ritual contexts. As a young scholar whose research has been undeniably altered by the pandemic, I interrogate how we might approach changes in the performing worlds we study, outlining both methodological and theoretical challenges and the creation of adaptive strategies. I further argue that current circumstances may provide an opportunity for significant recalibration, perhaps even a near- complete reformation of our ethnographic lens for the future and similarly drastic changes for the labour performed by professional musicians.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija, Glazbena umjetnost

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