Abstract (eng)
Music is omnipresent in human history. In 2020, however, the reception of live music experienced a unique turning point - unique, because a pandemic changed the social life of people in countries around the world. In order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the population was asked to keep a physical distance from each other. In many countries, the measures included exit restrictions and bans on events. Due to such measures, the reception of live music in form of live concerts was often not possible. The current thesis thus deals with the question of how the reception of live music changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which social practices of listening to live music emerged and disappeared. Qualitative interviews, observations and the collection and documentation of supplementary data (media reports, informal communication, photographs) underline the relevance of attending a live concert compared to the alternatives of live streaming, balcony concerts, car discos and in-games concerts. Although these also represent practices of listening to live music, they differ greatly in all three elements of social practice: materials, competence, ideas/meanings. The focus of this work on the comparison between these practices and the perspective of the recipient provides important insights that complement previous research on music production in times of the COVID crisis and are of great relevance to practice theory research.