During the pandemic, we wanted to understand the role of music in helping people to cope with the first lockdown (~ April 2020).
Read our paper in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
In short, we found that:
During the COVID-19 lockdown, people turned to music for regulating their emotions.
People experiencing different degrees of emotional changes showed different patterns of musical engagement.
Listening to music vs. making music may provide different coping potentials.
“Coronamusic” played a key role in socio-emotional coping.
All code and figures related to the project can be found on our Github page: https://github.com/lkfink/CMQ.
You can watch a short conference talk about the project, presented by co-first author Lindsay Warrenburg here.
You can learn more about an international research network related to music and COVID here
Press related to the project will appear below:
Nachrichten: Music in the time of Corona
RTE: Viral tunes: how we used music to get through the pandemic
Deutschlandfunk Nova: Musikhören hilft im Lockdown