‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown

Author:

d’Hoop Ariane1ORCID,Pols Jeannette2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ethics, Law & Humanities, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, University Medical Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Center for Sociological Intervention & Research, Research fellow at the Université Saint-Louis, Brussels

2. Department of Ethics, Law & Humanities, University Medical Centre Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Anthropology department, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

In many countries the lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic forbade social gatherings, including for performing arts. Numerous artists developed projects, often attempting to reach audiences in cyberspace. We offer an ethnographic study of such a project: a jazz concert played live for a particular audience, who attended it from home. We seek to understand how musicians, audience, and the material setting made it possible to engage with music in a way that gave these moments a particular density. What made this experience meaningful, we argue, was the eventness of the performance: the ‘game was on’, happening in the moment, in the unpredictable, risky interactions between musicians, and with the ‘push of the audience’ listening to the gig in real time. The eventness of this online concert was created in such a way it made possible a collective engagement with and through live music, notwithstanding the physical distance.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Anthropology,Cultural Studies

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