Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic：A European Focus

Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural organisations are dealing with short, medium and long-term threats to livelihoods under lockdown. This book aims at filling the literature gap about the consequences of one of the hardest crises - COVID-19 - severely impacting all the fields of the CCIs.

With a focus on European countries and taking into account the evolving and unstable context caused by the pandemic still in progress, this book investigates first reactions and actual strategies of CCIs' actors, government bodies and cultural institutions facing the COVID-19 crisis and the potential consequences of these emergency strategies for the future of the CCIs. Creative solutions adopted facing the repeated lockdowns could reveal beneficial also after the crisis and could originate new forms of cultural consumption or innovative market strategies. This book brings together a constellation of contributors to analyse the cultural sector as it seeks to emerge from this existential challenge.

The global perspectives presented in this book provide research-based evidence to understand and reflect on an unprecedented period, allowing reflective practitioners to learn and develop from a range of real-world cases. The book will also be of interest to researchers, academics and students with a particular interest in the management of cultural and creative organizations and crisis management.