The Role of Musical Aesthetic Emotions in Social Adaptation to the Covid-19 Pandemic

摘要

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic lockdown, people from all over theworld shared all sorts of artistic experiences. Singing or playing music at the window is just a fewexamples of artistic activities that kept us feeling “together” while being apart. Why did we chooseartistic expression, and especially music, to communicate with others during the quarantine?Should we regard this behavior only as a distraction, or is it possible that music evolved as a socialtool to help us, perhaps unconsciously, to adapt in times of social distress? In other words, canmusic be considered as an adaptive form of artistic expression? Here, we will suggest that this mayindeed be the case.