Pauwke Berkers
Biographic Data
| ID | 85659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauwke Berkers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauwke |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkers |
| SIGNATURE | BERKERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8132-6007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘The real win is doing this for a living’: Routes, routines and rewards of music managers
Studies of the music industry have traditionally prioritized its creative dimensions, especially musicians’ activities. When ‘non-creative’ aspects of music creation are examined, they are typically approached through musicians’ own ‘non-creative’ activities. Despite the insistence of scholars to consider both art worlds and ‘humdrum inputs’, less is known about music managers. As a result, their working lives and experiences remain underexplored…
“Deep Conversations With the Most Alternative Dude”: Hybrid Masculinity of White Straight Cisgender Men in Inclusive Nightlife Spaces in Rotterdam
This research examines how white, cisgender, and straight men negotiate masculinity in inclusive nightlife. Drawing on fourteen semi-structured interviews with inclusive nightlife visitors in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), we identified two distinct strategies of how the participants performed a hybrid masculinity while navigating an inclusive environment: 1. Translational masculinity (translating subordinate masculine practices), and 2. Inconspicu…
Signals and noise: How higher music education institutions define popular music
Research has illustrated how some cultural forms that were once excluded from higher education institutions become incorporated over time through a process known as “cultural legitimation.” While this process has been well documented for arts forms such as jazz and film, less is known about artforms in the middle of this process, as definitional boundaries and educational aims remain in flux. To better understand this, we ask: how do music educat…
Uncertain festival futures: How European music festival organisers navigate ‘loss’
Risk management and the navigation of loss are inherent to working conditions within the festival industry. With festivals cancelled, postponed or redesigned, the coronacrisis has deeply affected the already uncertain festival sector. Based on thirty-five interviews with Danish, Dutch and British music festival organisers, this article examines which losses organisers experienced when faced with a social trauma that disrupted their ontological se…
Licensed to Rock (or so they say). How Popular Music Programmes at Higher Music Education Institutions Create Professional Musicians
Due to technological innovations, the music industries have become more accessible for outsiders over the past two decades. Yet, over the same period we have seen an increasing number of popular music programmes at higher music education institutions (HPME programmes). Drawing from interviews with teachers, focus groups with students and a content analysis of policy documents at three Dutch HPME programmes, we investigate whether and in which way…
Basic income, post-precarious outcome? How creative workers perceive participating in an experiment with basic income
Precarity has long been a defining feature of the creative industries. Recently, the concept of a (universal) basic income (UBI) has received increased academic and policy interest as a way to mitigate the cultural and creative labour market’s precarious conditions. However, little is known about how artists experience receiving a basic income, and how this affects their work practices. Therefore, we explored such self-perceived effects of a basi…
Awkwardness sells, but who's buying? How students navigate awkward TV comedy series
Drawing on in-depth interviews, this study examines how students engage with awkwardness in television comedies. The article contributes to studies of awkwardness, its configuration in popular culture, and audiences' response to awkward-comic texts. Our findings show typical sequences and resources for producing awkward scenes. Participants tend to evaluate awkward scenes in terms of 'realism', i.e., whether they could relate the scene to their p…
Geographies of (un)ease: Embodying racial stigma and social navigation in public spaces in a reluctantly super-diverse city
Combining insights from sociology, geography, and race-ethnicity studies, this exploratory study examines how young middle-class Moroccan-Dutch men navigate geographies of (un)ease and the subsequent coping strategies they employ in public spaces of Rotterdam. Drawing on 12 semi-structured walking interviews in Rotterdam, our findings reveal that (un)ease is not only affected by the types of surrounding bodies and the amount of attention directed…
‘Getting in’ or ‘moving on’? On internship experiences and representation in the popular music festival sector
The cultural workforce has previously been described as pre-dominantly white, male and middle-class. Internships are often seen as a solution as they would function as a ‘democratising path to launch careers’. Nevertheless, previous research has also suggested that there is no smooth path from an internship to paid work for anyone, and even less so for some than for others. Moving beyond previous research, which often neglects the production pers…
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe
There has been a steady increase in popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions (HMEIs) across Europe. However, what students actually are supposed to learn at popular music bachelor/master programs has remained largely understudied. Based on 12 in-depth interviews with leaders in higher popular music education, this paper addresses: (1) how popular music is defined and possibly canonized, (2) what the position of popular music …
Artivist reception on Twitter: Art, politics and social media
There is a growing body of literature around the concept of artivism, which refers to artists who use social engagement and activism in their artistic practices. Artists, however, are not necessarily perceived as political actors and are heard for their political activism only through a legitimacy cross-over from artistic field to political field. In this paper, therefore, we theorize that audience attention has become an important resource for p…
Handshakes and hashtags: How changing social interactions make us feel awkward
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were implemented across the globe.These measures demanded replacing taken-for-granted social practices such as shaking hands with new interaction rituals.Based on our personal observations, this collective process of learning new interactions often resulted in feelings of awkwardness.Awkwardness, in this sense, is more than an individual emotion; it is also a cultural marker helping…
“Mental Health” as Defined by Twitter: Frames, Emotions, Stigma
while health and well-being framing, although present, is prone to low quality of information, (2) mental health discourse is often used to problematize social issues and externalize personal anxieties, which tends toward trivialization and, possibly, treatment delays, (3) mental health discourse often revolves around popularized mental illness (e.g., depression, anxiety, but not neurocognitive diseases), (4) the mental health 'Stigma' frame is n…
The working life of musicians: Mapping the work activities and values of early-career pop musicians in the Dutch music industry
This paper explores the working life of early-career musicians after technological innovations transformed the music industry. Based on in-depth interviews, a diary questionnaire study and post-questionnaire interviews with 17 early-career pop musicians aiming to build a career with their act in the Dutch industry, we investigate what day-to-day activities they perform and how they value these work activities. The analysis reveals that musicians …
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context
Inclusion and diversity have become paramount within the festival sector and beyond, often focusing on bringing together a diverse group of people within one space. Within leisure studies, there has been a longstanding interest in leisure as spaces where people meet “others.” Nevertheless, previous research found that physical proximity is often not sufficient to enable social mixing. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach combining urban plannin…
Milestones in music: Reputations in the career building of musicians in the changing Dutch music industry
This study addresses the role of reputation in the career building strategy of early-career musicians in a transforming music industry. Drawing from interviews with 21 musicians, we find that musicians continue to believe that building their reputations within the established music industry is important for career success, despite technological changes that could lead them to focus instead on alternative career strategies. Our analysis proceeds i…
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: Negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands
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 use insights from literature on innovation ecosystems from the field of business, as well as research on live music ecologies from popular music stu…
Theorizing the production and consumption of live music: A critical review
It has become a commonplace to observe that the economic and cultural significance of live music has increased, while the sales of recorded music have declined. With a sense of relief people observe that the physical experience of live music attendance remains vital under conditions of rapid digitalization. This observation runs the risk of neglecting the actual challenges faced by the live music sector. In fact, live music organizations are also…
Visualizing climate change: An exploratory study of the effectiveness of artistic information visualizations
Artists creatively use scientific data in artistic information visualizations (AIVs) to address climate change. Yet, it is unclear how effective they are in making viewers consider climate change as important. To assess their reception, this research studies and compares AIVs in relation to four additional visual forms, which are common in the communication of climate change (information visualizations, news photos, digital art visuals and cartoo…
Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter
You're Not Supposed to Be into Rock Music: Authenticity Maneuvering in a White Configuration
The authors investigate how American and Dutch rock music consumers navigate the whiteness of rock music practice and discourse. In doing so, they address the complex connection between aesthetic categories (popular music) and ethnoracial categories and to what extent this relationship is open or resistant to structural change. Connecting literature on the racialization of cultural genres and on symbolic violence, the authors demonstrate how auth…
“Maybe it’s … skin colour?” How race-ethnicity and gender function in consumers’ formation of classification styles of cultural content
Race-ethnicity and gender, while rarely explicitly considered for cultural consumption choices, are characteristics that can function implicitly in the classification of cultural content like films, literature or music. Embedded in classification styles–recurrent classificatory patterns in the habitual ways people choose, weigh and combine classifications at their disposal–such attributes are important for consumption practices. Based on visual Q…
Culture, Heritage, Art: Navigating Authenticities in Contemporary Hungarian Folk Singing
In Hungary, the decline of traditional peasant culture and its heritage has prompted urban revivals, leading to the acceptance of traditional Hungarian folk singing as a performing arts genre. Drawing from a series of in-depth interviews, this study shows how contemporary Hungarian folk singers navigate (define, learn, police) different forms of authenticity within the field of folk music. While we find that objectified authenticity - heritagized…
Max Weber and Leisure
The chapter discusses Max Weber’s theories on leisure, how his ideas have affected contemporary leisure studies, and how his insights could inform future research. We focus on three aspects of Weber’s rich sociological legacy: (1) the Protestant Ethic and the absence of leisure, focusing on the relationship between religion and consumption, (2) bureaucracy and rationalization of leisure, discussing McDonaldization and re-enchantment, and (3) soci…
Navigating the Margins between Consent and Dissent: Mechanisms of Creative Control and Rock Music in Late Socialist Romania
This study seeks to delineate the highly convoluted relationship between (rock) musicians and the state in late socialist Romania (1975–1985). By investigating extensive archival files originating from the Securitate records, Agitprop branches, and the ideological committees of the Romanian Communist Party, we examine how the Romanian regime employed its mechanisms of creative control and how it made sense of Romanian musicians’ attempt to naviga…
Ethnic boundaries in national literary histories: Classification of ethnic minority fiction authors in American, Dutch and German anthologies and literary history books, 1978-2006
Globalization and Ethnic Diversity in Western Newspaper Coverage of Literary Authors: Comparing Developments in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955 to 2005
In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (Western) nation-states. Through content analysis, the authors study the extent and composition of newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-Western ethnic origin—both foreign and domestic—in four nations across 50 years.The analysis reveals, among other things, that newspaper attention to ethnic minori…
These Critics (Still) Don't Write Enough about Women Artists: Gender Inequality in the Newspaper Coverage of Arts and Culture in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955-2005
This article addresses the extent and ways in which gender inequality in the newspaper coverage of arts and culture has changed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955-2005. Through a quantitative content analysis, we mapped all articles that appeared in two elite newspapers in each country in four sample years 1955, 1975, 1995, and 2005 (n = 15,379). First, despite increasing women's employment in arts and culture and a …
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context
Inclusion and diversity have become paramount within the festival sector and beyond, often focusing on bringing together a diverse group of people within one space. Within leisure studies, there has been a longstanding interest in leisure as spaces where people meet “others.” Nevertheless, previous research found that physical proximity is often not sufficient to enable social mixing. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach combining urban plannin…
Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter
Rock and roll or rock and fall? Gendered framing of the rock and roll lifestyles of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty in British broadsheets
Combining insights from gender, popular music, and celebrity studies, this article addresses to what extent British broadsheets frame Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty differently with regard to their rock and roll lifestyle. Our content analyses of The Guardian and The Independent indicate clear gender differences. First, Doherty's excessive behavior is often framed in positive terms (rock and roll), while the media discuss Winehouse's conduct more…
Milestones in music: Reputations in the career building of musicians in the changing Dutch music industry
This study addresses the role of reputation in the career building strategy of early-career musicians in a transforming music industry. Drawing from interviews with 21 musicians, we find that musicians continue to believe that building their reputations within the established music industry is important for career success, despite technological changes that could lead them to focus instead on alternative career strategies. Our analysis proceeds i…
Assimilation into the Literary Mainstream? The Classification of Ethnic Minority Authors in Newspaper Reviews in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany
This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in the course of ethnic minority writers’ careers and across time. By analysing newspaper reviews, we find that American reviewers less often mention the ethnic background of Mexican American authors t…
Handshakes and hashtags: How changing social interactions make us feel awkward
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were implemented across the globe.These measures demanded replacing taken-for-granted social practices such as shaking hands with new interaction rituals.Based on our personal observations, this collective process of learning new interactions often resulted in feelings of awkwardness.Awkwardness, in this sense, is more than an individual emotion; it is also a cultural marker helping…
You're Not Supposed to Be into Rock Music: Authenticity Maneuvering in a White Configuration
The authors investigate how American and Dutch rock music consumers navigate the whiteness of rock music practice and discourse. In doing so, they address the complex connection between aesthetic categories (popular music) and ethnoracial categories and to what extent this relationship is open or resistant to structural change. Connecting literature on the racialization of cultural genres and on symbolic violence, the authors demonstrate how auth…
Culture, Heritage, Art: Navigating Authenticities in Contemporary Hungarian Folk Singing
In Hungary, the decline of traditional peasant culture and its heritage has prompted urban revivals, leading to the acceptance of traditional Hungarian folk singing as a performing arts genre. Drawing from a series of in-depth interviews, this study shows how contemporary Hungarian folk singers navigate (define, learn, police) different forms of authenticity within the field of folk music. While we find that objectified authenticity - heritagized…
Ethnic boundaries in American, Dutch, and German national literary policies, 1965–2005
This article addresses the extent and ways in which ethnic diversity has been part of American, Dutch and German national literary policy from 1965 until 2005. By analyzing the content of policy documents of the National Endowment of the Arts and the Dutch and German Literary Fund, I found that ethnic boundaries were weak in the USA, moderate in the Netherlands and strong in Germany. First, national literary policy organizations made much, modera…
Basic income, post-precarious outcome? How creative workers perceive participating in an experiment with basic income
Precarity has long been a defining feature of the creative industries. Recently, the concept of a (universal) basic income (UBI) has received increased academic and policy interest as a way to mitigate the cultural and creative labour market’s precarious conditions. However, little is known about how artists experience receiving a basic income, and how this affects their work practices. Therefore, we explored such self-perceived effects of a basi…
Visualizing climate change: An exploratory study of the effectiveness of artistic information visualizations
Artists creatively use scientific data in artistic information visualizations (AIVs) to address climate change. Yet, it is unclear how effective they are in making viewers consider climate change as important. To assess their reception, this research studies and compares AIVs in relation to four additional visual forms, which are common in the communication of climate change (information visualizations, news photos, digital art visuals and cartoo…
Contraflows’ in de literaire journalistiek? - Een vergelijkende analyse van de aandacht voor niet-westerse schrijvers uit binnen- en buitenland in Franse, Duitse, Nederlandse en Amerikaanse dagbladen,…
In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (western) nation-states. Through content analysis, we examine the extent and composition of the newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-western ethnic origin – both foreign and domestic – in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States between 1955 and 2005. Newspaper attention to ethnic mi…
Ethnic boundaries in American, Dutch, and German national literary policies, 1965–2005
This article addresses the extent and ways in which ethnic diversity has been part of American, Dutch and German national literary policy from 1965 until 2005. By analyzing the content of policy documents of the National Endowment of the Arts and the Dutch and German Literary Fund, I found that ethnic boundaries were weak in the USA, moderate in the Netherlands and strong in Germany. First, national literary policy organizations made much, modera…
Contraflows’ in de literaire journalistiek? - Een vergelijkende analyse van de aandacht voor niet-westerse schrijvers uit binnen- en buitenland in Franse, Duitse, Nederlandse en Amerikaanse dagbladen,…
In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (western) nation-states. Through content analysis, we examine the extent and composition of the newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-western ethnic origin – both foreign and domestic – in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States between 1955 and 2005. Newspaper attention to ethnic mi…
Ethnic boundaries in national literary histories: Classification of ethnic minority fiction authors in American, Dutch and German anthologies and literary history books, 1978-2006
Assimilatie in de literaire mainstream? - Etnische grenzen in dagbladrecensies van etnische minderheidsauteurs in de Verenigde Staten, Nederland en Duitsland
Assimilation into the literary mainstream? Ethnic boundaries in newspaper reviews of ethnic minority authors in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany .This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009, and to what extent ethnic boundaries in literary criticism have changed in each country i…
Globalization and Ethnic Diversity in Western Newspaper Coverage of Literary Authors: Comparing Developments in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955 to 2005
In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (Western) nation-states. Through content analysis, the authors study the extent and composition of newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-Western ethnic origin—both foreign and domestic—in four nations across 50 years.The analysis reveals, among other things, that newspaper attention to ethnic minori…
Rock Against Gender Roles: Performing Femininities and Doing Feminism Among Women Punk Performers in the Netherlands, 1976-1982: Rock against Gender Roles
Intro \nOn November 8, 1980, a collective of women—inspired by the Rock Against \nSexism movement in the United Kingdom—organized the Rock tegen de \nRollen festival (“Rock Against Gender Roles”) The Netherlands city of \nUtrecht. The lineup consisted of six all-women punk and new wave bands \n(The Nixe, The Pin-offs, Pink Plastic & Panties,1The Removers, The Softies, \nand The Broads) playing for a mixed-gender audience. Similar to The \nLadyfes…
Assimilation into the Literary Mainstream? The Classification of Ethnic Minority Authors in Newspaper Reviews in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany
This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in the course of ethnic minority writers’ careers and across time. By analysing newspaper reviews, we find that American reviewers less often mention the ethnic background of Mexican American authors t…
Rock and roll or rock and fall? Gendered framing of the rock and roll lifestyles of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty in British broadsheets
Combining insights from gender, popular music, and celebrity studies, this article addresses to what extent British broadsheets frame Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty differently with regard to their rock and roll lifestyle. Our content analyses of The Guardian and The Independent indicate clear gender differences. First, Doherty's excessive behavior is often framed in positive terms (rock and roll), while the media discuss Winehouse's conduct more…
These Critics (Still) Don't Write Enough about Women Artists: Gender Inequality in the Newspaper Coverage of Arts and Culture in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955-2005
This article addresses the extent and ways in which gender inequality in the newspaper coverage of arts and culture has changed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955-2005. Through a quantitative content analysis, we mapped all articles that appeared in two elite newspapers in each country in four sample years 1955, 1975, 1995, and 2005 (n = 15,379). First, despite increasing women's employment in arts and culture and a …
Max Weber and Leisure
The chapter discusses Max Weber’s theories on leisure, how his ideas have affected contemporary leisure studies, and how his insights could inform future research. We focus on three aspects of Weber’s rich sociological legacy: (1) the Protestant Ethic and the absence of leisure, focusing on the relationship between religion and consumption, (2) bureaucracy and rationalization of leisure, discussing McDonaldization and re-enchantment, and (3) soci…
Navigating the Margins between Consent and Dissent: Mechanisms of Creative Control and Rock Music in Late Socialist Romania
This study seeks to delineate the highly convoluted relationship between (rock) musicians and the state in late socialist Romania (1975–1985). By investigating extensive archival files originating from the Securitate records, Agitprop branches, and the ideological committees of the Romanian Communist Party, we examine how the Romanian regime employed its mechanisms of creative control and how it made sense of Romanian musicians’ attempt to naviga…
Culture, Heritage, Art: Navigating Authenticities in Contemporary Hungarian Folk Singing
In Hungary, the decline of traditional peasant culture and its heritage has prompted urban revivals, leading to the acceptance of traditional Hungarian folk singing as a performing arts genre. Drawing from a series of in-depth interviews, this study shows how contemporary Hungarian folk singers navigate (define, learn, police) different forms of authenticity within the field of folk music. While we find that objectified authenticity - heritagized…
“Maybe it’s … skin colour?” How race-ethnicity and gender function in consumers’ formation of classification styles of cultural content
Race-ethnicity and gender, while rarely explicitly considered for cultural consumption choices, are characteristics that can function implicitly in the classification of cultural content like films, literature or music. Embedded in classification styles–recurrent classificatory patterns in the habitual ways people choose, weigh and combine classifications at their disposal–such attributes are important for consumption practices. Based on visual Q…
Theorizing the production and consumption of live music: A critical review
It has become a commonplace to observe that the economic and cultural significance of live music has increased, while the sales of recorded music have declined. With a sense of relief people observe that the physical experience of live music attendance remains vital under conditions of rapid digitalization. This observation runs the risk of neglecting the actual challenges faced by the live music sector. In fact, live music organizations are also…
Visualizing climate change: An exploratory study of the effectiveness of artistic information visualizations
Artists creatively use scientific data in artistic information visualizations (AIVs) to address climate change. Yet, it is unclear how effective they are in making viewers consider climate change as important. To assess their reception, this research studies and compares AIVs in relation to four additional visual forms, which are common in the communication of climate change (information visualizations, news photos, digital art visuals and cartoo…
Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter
You're Not Supposed to Be into Rock Music: Authenticity Maneuvering in a White Configuration
The authors investigate how American and Dutch rock music consumers navigate the whiteness of rock music practice and discourse. In doing so, they address the complex connection between aesthetic categories (popular music) and ethnoracial categories and to what extent this relationship is open or resistant to structural change. Connecting literature on the racialization of cultural genres and on symbolic violence, the authors demonstrate how auth…
“Mental Health” as Defined by Twitter: Frames, Emotions, Stigma
while health and well-being framing, although present, is prone to low quality of information, (2) mental health discourse is often used to problematize social issues and externalize personal anxieties, which tends toward trivialization and, possibly, treatment delays, (3) mental health discourse often revolves around popularized mental illness (e.g., depression, anxiety, but not neurocognitive diseases), (4) the mental health 'Stigma' frame is n…
The working life of musicians: Mapping the work activities and values of early-career pop musicians in the Dutch music industry
This paper explores the working life of early-career musicians after technological innovations transformed the music industry. Based on in-depth interviews, a diary questionnaire study and post-questionnaire interviews with 17 early-career pop musicians aiming to build a career with their act in the Dutch industry, we investigate what day-to-day activities they perform and how they value these work activities. The analysis reveals that musicians …
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context
Inclusion and diversity have become paramount within the festival sector and beyond, often focusing on bringing together a diverse group of people within one space. Within leisure studies, there has been a longstanding interest in leisure as spaces where people meet “others.” Nevertheless, previous research found that physical proximity is often not sufficient to enable social mixing. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach combining urban plannin…
Milestones in music: Reputations in the career building of musicians in the changing Dutch music industry
This study addresses the role of reputation in the career building strategy of early-career musicians in a transforming music industry. Drawing from interviews with 21 musicians, we find that musicians continue to believe that building their reputations within the established music industry is important for career success, despite technological changes that could lead them to focus instead on alternative career strategies. Our analysis proceeds i…
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: Negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands
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 use insights from literature on innovation ecosystems from the field of business, as well as research on live music ecologies from popular music stu…
‘Getting in’ or ‘moving on’? On internship experiences and representation in the popular music festival sector
The cultural workforce has previously been described as pre-dominantly white, male and middle-class. Internships are often seen as a solution as they would function as a ‘democratising path to launch careers’. Nevertheless, previous research has also suggested that there is no smooth path from an internship to paid work for anyone, and even less so for some than for others. Moving beyond previous research, which often neglects the production pers…
Constructing popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions across Europe
There has been a steady increase in popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions (HMEIs) across Europe. However, what students actually are supposed to learn at popular music bachelor/master programs has remained largely understudied. Based on 12 in-depth interviews with leaders in higher popular music education, this paper addresses: (1) how popular music is defined and possibly canonized, (2) what the position of popular music …
Artivist reception on Twitter: Art, politics and social media
There is a growing body of literature around the concept of artivism, which refers to artists who use social engagement and activism in their artistic practices. Artists, however, are not necessarily perceived as political actors and are heard for their political activism only through a legitimacy cross-over from artistic field to political field. In this paper, therefore, we theorize that audience attention has become an important resource for p…
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