How many people would never experience live music in their entire lives? How many would never be touched by being connected to a performing artist? Or, to cite the British sociomusicologist Simon Frith, “who [would say] they loved particular performers but had no desire to see them live?”. Obviously, …

The aim of this study is to better understand the individual construction of the experience of liveness at pop music concerts and to add knowledge to the field of measuring audience experience in performing arts. The study is based on a mixed-methods methodology, designed to overcome the common difficulties …

Boekbespreking van het proefschrift van Rick Everts, waarin zijn promotieonderzoek staat beschreven naar de carrières van beginnende popmuzikanten, de rol van popmuziekonderwijs en de carrières van muzikanten in de livemuzieksector.

Live music is of great value in the lives of many. Even in today’s age of unlimited access to digital music, the appetite for live performance is only increasing. In fact, the years preceding the pandemic in 2020 can be regarded as the best for live pop music in terms of the number of gigs, audience …

Onderzoekers van Hogeschool Inholland hebben in samenwerking met de Popcoalitie een nieuwe onderzoeks- en innovatieagenda opgesteld voor de popmuzieksector. Hierin zijn de meest urgente thema’s en vragen vanuit de sector, waar onderzoek gewenst is of waar innovaties nodig zijn, in kaart gebracht. Na …

Professional Excellence in Meaningful Music in Healthcare (ProMiMiC) is het onderzoeksproject (2019-2023) naar persoonsgericht musiceren voor ziekenhuispatiënten en hun verpleegkundigen. In het onderzoek is de interprofessionele samenwerking tussen musici en verpleegkundigen onderzocht en is gekeken …

Music can touch people deeply, and lead to wellbeing as an all-encompassing word for everything that makes life worth living, or at least can make it liveable. Musicians can play an important role in these processes, not as pseudo-therapists, but from their own artistic identity, with an approach in …

This paper seeks to understand the role of valuing in urban live music ecologies. It explains how multiple actors (e.g. directors of music venues, musicians, policy-makers, and real estate experts) in Dutch live music ecologies negotiate the different values of live music. To examine this dynamic, we …

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