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GOING VIRAL: Music and Emotions during Pandemics (1679–1919)

    Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild

VIRUS Band 22, pp. 197-206, 2023/12/28

Schwerpunkt: Epidemie und Emotion

doi: 10.1553/virus22s197

doi: 10.1553/virus22s197


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doi:10.1553/virus22



doi:10.1553/virus22s197



doi:10.1553/virus22s197

Abstract

This project provides a comparative history of the imbrication of music in the emotional experiences of pandemics. It develops a conceptualisation and methodology for studying music and emotions across history, generates historical knowledge about music’s emotional dimensions in three major pandemics – the Bubonic Plague, Cholera and Spanish Flu –, highlighting both difference and continuity and provides a solid conceptual, methodological and historical foundation for comparative studies on music, emotions and pandemics across a vast range of disciplines. The results will not only be applicable in related historical settings but also enable a meaningful interdisciplinary discourse with the Social and Natural Sciences about music and emotions in pandemics, including Covid-19.

Keywords: Pandemics, music, emotions, 17th century, 19th century, 20th century, Western Europe, Vienna