Musikerne og klimakrisen

Abstract

A successful musician’s career has long been associated with extensive touring and travel. International activities have been a marker of success. Due to the growing focus on climate change, extensive travel has come under a new light. Drawing upon qualitative interviews with professional musicians, we investigate the way they think about how and to what extent climate issues affect their work. The informants recognize climate change as an urgent problem, and the majority express willingness to change behavior to contribute to a more sustainable profession. At the same time, this willingness is weighed against possible negative consequences such behavioral changes have on their own professional careers. In this chapter, we explore these conflicting impulses through the concept cultural dissonance. We conclude with a discussion of the extent to which and the ways in which climate values impact the music profession and what opportunities the concept of cultural dissonance offers to analyze this.