Call for Survey Responses!
If you have performed in public at least once in the period 2018-2021, please click on this link, or scan the QR code below, to complete Fee van der Mark's survey.
The research is attempting to understand how musicians seek audiences online and offline (during the Covid-19 pandemic specifically).
Your responses will be processed only within Erasmus University Rotterdam for academic purposes. The survey is available in 9 different languages. It consists of 20 questions and takes around 10 minutes to complete.
Your participation would mean a great deal to the relevance of his Master’s Thesis Research, and to insightful results that help better understand busking practices.
Call for research papers!
The International Journal of Community Music has announced a call for papers regarding a special Issue: ‘Buskers: Community, Culture, Commodity’.
More about the submission:
Buskers have been part of the musical fabric of cities, towns and urban environments the world over for centuries. Along with music, buskers have transported instruments, languages, politics and culture across time and place. They have become embedded in musical communities ranging from town squares and shopping malls to festivals and concert halls, sometimes acquiring global fame and fortune in the process.
Yet, buskers have also been unsettled and disrupted in their sonic environments. They have been the victims of legislation, violence and suppression. Entire communities have both embraced buskers and shunned them.
Some buskers have become social and political activists for theirs and others’ rights; they have lobbied for better community support for their health and wellbeing, and they have also transformed community festival-making and contributed substantially to tourism and the cultural enhancement of street spaces.
This Special Issue addresses the multifarious ways buskers have been embraced by, and rejected from, community music-making, practice and culture. We shall explore the ways buskers have been hidden in plain sight in discourses of community arts enhancement.
We are interested in examining how covid and the digital revolution has changed and impacted the performers and their craft. We also want to explore the music of street musicians and what their choice of repertory represents about their identity, their communities of practice and their audiences.
The following topics are invited around three themes, though they are simply suggestions:
Community
What value do buskers have in the community? What is their function? How do communities value buskers? What is the evidence? How do authorities impair or destroy a sense of community in relation to regulating buskers? How do buskers build their own sense of community with other buskers and street artists? How can mapping buskers’ performance spaces reveal community attitudes to buskers?
Culture
What are the determinants of a positive and healthy busking culture? How does busking culture differ in different places? How is identity expressed in busking culture? How do buskers exploit technology?
Commodity
Has technology made busking a commodity? What role do festivals play in commercializing busking? What is the impact of a cashless society on buskers? Where are buskers considered a value-add – and why? What is the current or changing nature of the celebrity busker?
Criteria:
Deadline: 1st August 2022
Abstracts: of 350 words
Email: Guest Editor Paul Watt on [email protected].
To know more about the journal visit: www.intellectbooks.com