Dr George Musgrave, Senior Lecturer in Music and Entrepreneurship, was interviewed by GB News about the mental health of musicians in the post-pandemic music scene.
In the interview, he said: “The experience of being a musician for lots of people is actually very difficult and the pandemic has just exacerbated this with the closure of and difficulties of performing live…It sort of creates a perfect storm for what it feels like to be a musician and the emotional experience of being a musician.”
Talking about the economic disparity of musicians, he added: “Now that we don’t dig things out of the ground and make things from iron anymore the UK has been heralded as this knowledge economy, and part of this are musicians and the music that they produce. But the fact is that the musical economy which is so important to the UK economy in terms of its contribution is quite economically dysfunctional for the people that participate in it. Someone is getting rich out of music, but the reality is most of the time it is not the musicians.”
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