Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities

This insightful investigation of busking culture confronts relevant truths about power relations, policy, and inequality in contemporary cities across the globe.

What happens when precarious urban cultural laborers 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...