Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic A European Focus

Foreword

Pierre-Jean Benghozi

Introduction - The COVID-19 pandemic and the Cultural Industries: emergency strategies and a renewed interest for building a better future?

Elisa Salvador

Section 1: Regional and national policies: the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the cultural industries

1. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cultural Industries in the EU and in the UK: A Perfect Storm

Alessandro Giovanni Lamonica and Pierangelo Isernia 

2. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cultural Industries in France: Cultural Policy Challenged

Jean Paul Simon 

3. The effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the field of Finnish Cultural Industries: revealing and challenging policy structures

Mervi Luonila, Vappu Renko, Olli Jakonen, Sari Karttunen and Anna Kanerva 

4. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Cultural Policy Response in Slovakia

Zuzana Došeková and Andrej Svorenčík

Section 2: Cultural workers: resilience and organization during the COVID-19 pandemic 

5. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cultural Workers: Fight, Flight or Freeze in Lockdown?

Beate Elstad, Dag Jansson and Erik Døving 

6. The COVID-19 Pandemic, Cultural Work and Resilience

Viktoriya Pisotska and Luca Giustiniano 

7. The COVID-19 Pandemic, Coworking Spaces and Cultural Events: the case of Italy

Federica Rossi and Ilaria Mariotti 

8. Freelance classical musicians in Austria and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dagmar Abfalter and Sandra Stini 

9. Artists in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Use of lockdown time, skill development, and audience perceptions in Colombia and Spain

Javier A. Rodríguez-Camacho, Pedro Rey-Biel, Jeremy C. Young and Mónica Marcell Romero Sánchez

Section 3: Institutional strategies: first responses in the arts and culture sectors to the strict lockdown of March 2020 

10. The COVID-19 pandemic and structural change in the museum sector: insights from Italy

Enrico Bertacchini, Andrea Morelli and Giovanna Segre 

11. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cultural Industries in Spain: Early impacts of lockdown

Raúl Abeledo Sanchis and Guillem Bacete Armengot 

12. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cultural Industries in the Nordic Region: Emerging strategies in film and drama productions

Terje Gaustad and Peter Booth 

13. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cultural Industries in the Czech Republic

Marek Prokůpek and Jakub Grosman 

14. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the European Screen Industry: The role of national screen agencies

Caitriona Noonan 

15. Orchestrating Change: The future of orchestras post COVID-19

John O’Hagan and Karol J. Borowiecki

Conclusions: The legacy of COVID-19 for the cultural industries

Trilce Navarrete

Biography

Elisa Salvador is Professor (PhD, HDR) of Innovation and Creativity at ESSCA School of Management, France.

Trilce Navarrete is Lecturer in Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University, Netherlands.

Andrej Srakar is Scientific Associate at the Institute for Economic Research (IER) and Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

"This edited volume adds diverse case studies to the current literature. Its biggest merits are the focused overview of the cultural industries during the Covid crisis, the coverage of several European countries and the country-specific details." Hye-Kyung Lee, International Journal of Cultural Policy

"A timely and much needed overview of the state of the cultural and creative industries across Europe in the time of pandemic. The three foci of responses: at the local, labour market and national and institutional levels, provide lucid and detailed new evidence that culture matters more than ever; but sadly, that our information sources are deficient, and policy responses are insufficient. Read it and weep: we must do better!" Andy C Pratt, Professor of Cultural Economy and Director of Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries, City, University of London, UK

"We all missed going to the theatre, a cinema or entering an art gallery, but few outside the industry really understand the depth and breadth of the impact that the Covid pandemic has had on the creative and cultural industries. This volume fills that important void. It presents an insightful, rigorous and heartfelt investigation of the short and longer-term bearing of the pandemic on creative and cultural industries, as well as its people, with a selection of international case studies that provides close up analyses of national responses and policy initiatives, whilst bringing to life a global canvas of adaptation and resilience." Lisa De Propris, Professor of Regional Economic Development and Head of the Business and Labour Economics Group, University of Birmingham, UK