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"Beyond the immediate health risks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the containment measures it necessitates have brought with them a number of other stressors that can undermine individual and collective well-being. As part of an international research project, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics investigated whether musical engagement is an effective strategy for socio-emotional coping during lockdown.
The project team collected demographically representative samples from six countries on three continents during the first lockdown in April and May 2020. Over 5000 people from Germany, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, and the USA were asked in an online survey about how they engaged with music during the crisis. More than half of respondents reported using music to cope with emotional and social stressors.
It’s worth noting that music itself wasn’t the coping aid, but rather, music-related behavior, specifically the ways people have adapted their musical behaviors during the crisis. In this regard, music listening and music making appear to provide different coping potentials,” explains Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics."
Music had always been a release from stress for me - even when I was doing grade exams as a kid. (The exams were only once a year, and took up less than 5% of my overall practice time through the year - of course, I didn't need to practice sight-reading, as I was already sight-reading music every day because I was singing in the school choir). I regarded it as my "me time", to use a contemporary term which even the advant-gardists never invented.
So how did music helped you cope during this crisis? Any thoughts?
The project team collected demographically representative samples from six countries on three continents during the first lockdown in April and May 2020. Over 5000 people from Germany, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, and the USA were asked in an online survey about how they engaged with music during the crisis. More than half of respondents reported using music to cope with emotional and social stressors.
It’s worth noting that music itself wasn’t the coping aid, but rather, music-related behavior, specifically the ways people have adapted their musical behaviors during the crisis. In this regard, music listening and music making appear to provide different coping potentials,” explains Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics."
Music had always been a release from stress for me - even when I was doing grade exams as a kid. (The exams were only once a year, and took up less than 5% of my overall practice time through the year - of course, I didn't need to practice sight-reading, as I was already sight-reading music every day because I was singing in the school choir). I regarded it as my "me time", to use a contemporary term which even the advant-gardists never invented.
So how did music helped you cope during this crisis? Any thoughts?
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