The Poetics of Engagement

of two volumes comprising three special issues in total. In these special issues, we invited musicians, performers, scholars, arts presenters, and other cultural workers to reflect on the extraordinary challenges posed by the pandemic and to begin envisaging a post-pandemic musical landscape. The editorial to Volume II includes the introduction from the previous issue, slightly altered to reflect new developments in the weeks since we published the first volume, as well as new writing that provides an overview of the contents of this volume specifically. In this second volume, contributors continue the work of imagining a more equitable and sustainable musical landscape post-pandemic. One year into the pandemic, with tropes of exhaustion vs. resilience circulating like viral contagions in their own right, the voices here suggest something else: the beginnings of a dream of liveness. This is not to say that exhaustion is not present in this volume; it is, in spades, but paired with a determined call to action. Resilience, too, is here, but grounded in the knowledge that celebrating resilience must go hand-in-hand with systemic change. And the dreaming that happens in these pages is tempered by recognition of the voyeurism and biases of social media, where so much music-making occurs at present; the fundamental inequities of present-day structures for compensating creative labour; and the profound injustices of our society. And yet, dreams of liveness, of being and improvising together, persist

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