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New book to explore the management of street performances and festivals

Marta Połeć's new book Organisational Aesthetics and Alternative Organisations: Humanistic Management of Street Performances and Festivals will be published in 2025 in Routledge's series 'Humanistic Management'.

New book asks what can busking teach us about data, policy and our cities

Jess Reia's book Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teaching Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities is forthcoming with Intellect Books / University of Chicago Press in 2025. The book confronts relevant truths about power relations, policy, and inequality in contemporary cities across the globe.

New publication explores the effect of musical street performance/busking on public space perception

Robbie How and Magdalena Szubielska explore two psychological issues of busking in public spaces: the effect of street performance on public space perception and the complexity of the appreciation of street performance, regarded as street audience experience (SAE). The study aims to verify the effect of street performance on public space perception, while examining SAE as a mediator of this effect.

Recently passed PhD thesis explores busking in Adelaide

Daniel Bacchieri's Beyond Bourke Street: Melbourne Buskers in the Digital World (PhD thesis, Monash University, 2024) documents and analyses street music in Melbourne, exploring the landscape of busking in both offline and online environments. The project uses the theoretical and methodological framework described in cultural mapping, which is presented through a portfolio of multimedia journalism, including podcasting, videography, and music curation.