Functions of Music Making Under Lockdown: A Trans-Historical Perspective Across Two Pandemics
This paper describes how music fulfills two of its broadly recognized functions—“mood regulation” and “social cohesion”—in times of pandemics and social isolation.Through a trans-historical comparison of the musical activities of the Milanese during an outbreak Sleep Jumpsuits/Rompers of plague in 1576 with the musical activities observ