Musicscape Groningen Live 2010

This is the main question in two research projects, of which the databases are placed in the DATAVERSE City Musicscapes. The Musicscapes of the cities of Groningen (april 2010) and Utrecht (december 2011, 2013, 2016) consist of extensive collections of data about “organized live musical events.” We restricted our data to live music (as opposed to mass-mediated), performed by live musicians or DJ’s on regular stages (subsidized and private concert and theatre venues, which are specifically designed for music or theatre performances) as well as on non-regular venues (café’s, restaurants, school auditoria, museums, parks, monuments, stores etcetera).

To provide for a consistent and repeatable research method, we included only those live events (to be named ‘concerts’ in the following article) that were announced in journals, newspapers, flyers, posters, websites and Facebook pages. This means that street musicians and street organs, but also pop up concerts (flash mobs) and private concerts are not included. Finally music festivals are not included in our datasets because they would cause big fluctuations in our datasets.