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 …

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 …

Het festivaljaar 2022 was niet alleen het jaar van de terugkeer van de festivals, van de knaldrangen van de onzekerheid achter de schermen, maar bovenal het jaar van de vrouwelijke artiesten en de Nederlandse artiesten. Nadat verschillende media dit al signaleerden, vormt dit rapport een onderbouwing …

Music festivals are among the most affected sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, despite their precarious situation, several Dutch festivals have managed to innovate and transform during the crisis. This chapter seeks to understand how these festivals managed to bounce forward. Based on three case …

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam doet met het project BASSTA onderzoek naar het verbeteren van het scheidingsgedrag van huishoudens. Middels doe-boeken is onderzocht hoe mensen thuis met hun afval omgaan. Op basis van deze analyse worden gedragsinterventies ontworpen.

In deze monitor is het totale Nederlandse live-aanbod opgenomen in de periode tussen de opkomst van streaming diensten (vanaf 2008) en de sluiting van de livesector als gevolg van de pandemie (begin 2020). In dit tijdperk heeft live (pop)muziek een onmiskenbare groei doorgemaakt. Met name tussen 2008 …

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 …

To better understand the growing popularity of live music, this study analyses consumers’ motivations for live music attendance. In addition to existing literature, a generic approach to audience motivations contributes to our knowledge of the growing live music industry, where venues and festivals vie …

Purpose This paper sets out to compare different methodologies for measuring the value(s) of live popular music and to explore the different motivations amongst a range of organisations engaged in that work. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse how the values of live music are measured, who …