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Busking, or the art ofstreet performing

Colegiul Național „Decebal” Deva

  Teacher: Balabuc Mirabela Student:Mădălina

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Table of contents:

• Chater !: Street erformance: de"nition

• Chater #: The histor$ of bus%ing

• Chater &: 'orms

• Chater (: Collecting mone$

• Chater ): The lace *here a street erformance occurs

• Chater +: ,egislation

• Chater -:”The bus%ing ro.ect”

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Street erformance: de"nition

The term /bus%ing/ *as "rstnoted in the 0nglish languagearound the middle !1+2s in 3reatBritain4 The verb /to bus%/ comes

from the Sanish root *ord/buscar/5 *ith the meaning /tosee%/4

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Performances canbe just about

anything thatpeople nd

entertainin :

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The histor$ of bus%ing:

• The 6omani eole *ere the most commonamong bus%ers

• The concet of bus%ing *as brought to0ngland b$ the romans

• 7n the 8nited States medicine sho*s *ere

oular in the !9th centur$• ;ne man bands *ere common in the ast

• The hiie counterculture staged <be=ins”

• Caroling *as considered to be a form ofbus%ing in 7reland and 0ngland

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'orms:

Circle shows Walk-by acts

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toplight performers Caf! busking

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Collectingmone$:

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<The itch”

The lace *here aerformance occurs iscalled a /itch<4 >oularitches tend to be ublic

laces *ith large volumesof edestrian tra?ic5 high

 visibilit$5 lo* bac%groundnoise and as fe* elementsof interference as ossible4

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,egislation:“Sometimes the customers threw something in the hats. Sometimes they something out of the hats. Sometimes they took the hats.”

• The "rst recorded instances of la*s a?ecting bus%ers *eancient 6ome

• 7n !)&2 @enr$ A777 ordered the licensing of minstrels andla$ers5 fortune=tellers5 ardoners and fencers5 as *ell abeggars *ho could not *or%4

• Toda$ the rotection of artistic free seech etends to bu

• Bus%ers ma$ "nd themselves targeted b$ thieves due to  ver$ oen and ublic nature of their craft

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The bus%ing ro.ect:<Gain fans, make money, avoid arrest”

<The bus%ingro.ect” is acommunit$ that laterdeveloed into a

social net*or% and adigital tool%it thatbus%ers can use inthe street4

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