Urban Music Governance

What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities

Jess Reia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2025
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-089-0 (ISBN)

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What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection, laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years, but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art, this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection, archives, regulatory frameworks and urban planning. Busking also responds to underlying questions on the boundaries of the right to the city – and who has a voice in shaping how our cities are planned and governed.

A transnational exploration of street performance, Urban Music Governance examines the intricate limits of legality, data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal, this book puts forward a lively account on why such an often-overlooked practice mattes today.

By investigating the role of busking in contemporary society, Urban Music Governance presents an original interdisciplinary study that exposes how power dynamics in policymaking decide issues of access – and exclusion – around us, above and below ground.

Jess Reia is an Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia, USA, working on data justice, technology policy, and urban governance.

Foreword By Will Straw

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What does street performance teach us about cities?

Part I | Numbers and norms

More than numbers: Counting, categorizing and describing buskers across time

Regulation: Engaging with (dis)order in everyday life

Part II | Above ground and beyond regulation

Legitimation: The blurred boundaries between policy and control

Disputes: Busking as public service and law-making

Part III | Going underground, being understood

Disobedience: Lawbreakers and talented stars

Postface - Pandemic, digitalisation and evidence-based policy

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Urban Music Studies
Zusatzinfo	18 Halftones, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83595-089-2 / 1835950892
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-089-0 / 9781835950890
Zustand	Neuware