@inbook{Medboe_H-2022_95794,
title = {Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery},
author = {Medboe, H. and Raine, S. and Dias, J.},
month = {sep},
year = {2022},
abstract = {This chapter considers how four festivals across the UK – Brecon Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners in Belfast, Edinburgh Jazz &amp; Blues Festival, and Manchester Jazz Festival – have adapted their processes and practices in order to reimagine the jazz festival during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the emerging post-pandemic period. We explore challenges and opportunities through the virtual live music experience; the longevity of economic models developed during COVID-19; relationships with audiences, musicians and funders; and changes in the role of festivals and their teams. Building on our previous work, we maintain that the jazz scene is a particularly frag-ile and fragmentary element within the wider UK music industries. In the absence of certain useful infrastructure – such as agents and touring networks – many jazz mu-sicians rely upon the festival circuit. This reliance became increasingly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic when the cancellation of music festivals removed a large seasonal component of musicians’ annual income. We argue that the insights explored through this genre-specific example will offer general lessons for the UK music indus-tries as they look towards a post-pandemic future.},
pages = {109-127},
journal = {Rethinking the Music Business},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09532-0},
}
