The Great British Live Music Census

现场音乐在英国很受欢迎，对音乐产业来说变得越来越重要，在2008年超过了唱片收入。然而，近些年来，场馆的处境一直很艰难。规模较小的场地、俱乐部和酒吧尤其感受到了这些挑战，这些场地、俱乐部和酒吧为当地音乐家和观众提供服务，并作为未来头条新闻表演的训练场地。现场音乐领域引起了广泛的兴趣，行业组织、政策机构和第三部门已经发布了许多评估其价值的报告。然而，关于现场音乐的价值和英国各地目前面临的挑战之间的具体关系，仍存在知识差距。现场音乐活动的账户因其制作地点以及提供这些活动的政策、行业或学术研究的类型而异。例如，苏格兰家庭调查、爱丁堡市议会、媒体文化和体育部的报告，以及行业机构委托的报告，对什么是现场音乐活动使用了不同的定义和参数。他们经常把现场音乐与其他表演活动(如剧院)或音乐收入来源(如录音或出版)混为一谈。这种差异可能会让人们很难在不同城市和不同类型的音乐之间进行有意义的比较。这还意味着，现场音乐发生的所有环境并不总是被具有特定行业或政策重点的工作恰当地捕捉到。我们的项目将直接解决这些问题。伟大的英国现场音乐普查将是音乐行业组织、政策机构和领先的学术现场音乐研究人员之间的合作。我们将与现场音乐部门的关键人员合作，并在项目团队对爱丁堡现场音乐普查的初步研究的基础上，提供英国第一个涵盖所有场所的现场音乐账户，其中包括所有类型的音乐活动-从业余音乐到顶级专业音乐。我们的团队将与行业人员和政策制定者一起开发一个工具包，用于在三个城市(格拉斯哥、纽卡斯尔和牛津)进行现场音乐快照普查，并与其他机构共享，以便他们可以在全国范围内进行并行快照。我们还将与项目合作伙伴英国音乐、音乐家联盟和音乐场地信托基金一起，对全国的音乐家、场地和观众进行调查，以提供该国迄今最全面的现场音乐数据集。我们之前的研究表明，地方政府对文化活动和场地许可的不同反应可能会对现场音乐的提供产生深远影响，但考虑到现有证据中使用的各种不同定义和参数，政策制定者很难做出明智的决定。通过将行业机构、政策制定者和学者聚集在一起来制定问题和促进调查，该项目将帮助研究人员、政策制定者和行业，就学术上严格的方法和后续数据集达成共识，以评估英国现场音乐的范围和价值。对于所有有关方面来说，这将是向前迈出的一大步，努力在全国各地的城市和地方维护和发展这一最有价值的地方特色的文化和经济福祉。

Live music is popular across the UK, and has become increasingly important to the music industries, overtaking recording revenues in 2008. Yet recent years have been difficult for venues. These challenges are felt particularly keenly by the smaller venues, clubs and pubs which provide for local musicians and audiences, and which serve as the training ground for future headline acts. There is widespread interest in the live music sector, and there have been numerous reports assessing its value produced by industry organisations, policy bodies and the third sector. Nevertheless, there is still a knowledge gap about the specific relationship between the value of live music on the one hand and current challenges facing venues across the UK on the other.Accounts of live music activity vary according to where they have been produced and according to which type of policy, industry or academic research has provided them. For instance, reports by The Scottish Household Survey, City of Edinburgh Council, Department of Media Culture and Sport, as well as those that industry bodies have commissioned, use both different definitions and parameters for what counts as live music activity. They often conflate live music with other performance activities (like theatre) or musical sources of revenue (like recording or publishing). This variation can make it difficult to make meaningful comparisons across cities, and between different types of music. It also means that the full range of settings in which live music takes place is not always properly captured by work which has a specific industry or policy focus. Our project will address these issues directly. The Great British Live Music Census will be a collaboration between music industry organisations, policy bodies and leading academic live music researchers. Working with key personnel in the live music sector, and building on the project team's pilot study of a census of live music in Edinburgh, we will provide the first account of live music in the UK that covers the full range of venues and that includes all types of musical activity - from amateur to top-flight professional. In conjunction with industry personnel and policymakers, our team will develop a toolkit for conducting a snapshot census of live music in three cities (Glasgow, Newcastle and Oxford) and share it with other institutions so that they can conduct parallel snapshots across the country. With project partners UK Music, the Musicians' Union and the Music Venue Trust, we will also survey musicians, venues and audience members nationwide to provide the most comprehensive dataset yet of live music in the country. Our prior research shows that different local government responses to cultural activity and venue licensing can have a profound effect on live music provision, but also that it is difficult for policymakers to make informed decisions given the variety of different definitions and parameters used in the available evidence. By bringing together industry bodies, policymakers and academics to formulate the questions and promote the surveys, this project will assist researchers, policymakers and industry alike, providing consensus on an academically rigorous methodology and subsequent dataset for assessing the scope and value of live music in the UK. This will be a large step forward for all concerned in working to safeguard and develop the cultural and economic wellbeing of this most valuable component of local character in cities and localities across the country.