Artiesten of bedelaars? Aanpassingsstrategieën van rondtrekkende entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914)

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    !!Description

    This project aims to gain insight into the migration patterns, income strategies and cultural repertoires

    of itinerant entertainers in Brabant in the 'long nineteenth century' (1750-1914). Making their living

    with public performances ranging from singing, making music, acting and puppetry to acrobatics and

    bear dancing, they travelled over short and long distances with their shows and brought entertainment

    to people who did or did not have regular access to amusement. The transition from preindustrial to

    industrial society confronted them with new opportunities and constraints, inciting permanent

    adaptations of their trajectories and shows. While they are often dismissed sideways as folklorist

    remnants of a bygone age or as 'beggars in disguise', this research aims to explore the relative success

    of their cultural repertoires and income strategies in their own right in a period of societal

    transformation. Using repressive sources on the one hand and requests and permissions for itinerant

    performances on the other hand as the main source materials, this research project aims to establish a

    balanced, comparative and long-term view on both the relative success of their survival strategies and

    their cultural importance during the transition from preindustrial to industrial society, with due

    attention for dynamics of social differentiation, professionalization, commercialisation, the expansion

    of urban leisure facilities and changing migration policies.
    AcroniemFWOTM632
    StatusGeëindigd
    Effectieve start/einddatum1/10/1230/09/16

    Keywords

    • history

    Flemish discipline codes in use since 2023

    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified

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