ABSTRACT
Catering to the current need for reducing or managing stress, “music therapy” has been evolved as a cost-effective intervention. Due to its positive health outcomes, it may be used as an alternative to tranquilising medicine having negative effects. This study aims to explore the relationship between nostalgia-inducing music, resilience and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The data from the target age group of 20-60 has been collected during the COVID-19 outbreak in India using digital ethnography. The respondents were those who were severely affected by the pandemic and worldwide lockdown. The findings of the qualitative study represent a positive relationship between nostalgia-inducing music and resilience and a negative relationship between resilience and PTSD. Hence, the study support that in case of any humanitarian crises, music has the potential to reduce PTSD and there can be some aid provided to support folk, classical musicians and social media performers.
