The history of buskers and busking is a relatively new field of musicological research: recent scholarship has mainly been concerned with studies of street musicians in nineteenth-century London and Paris. This article, however, focuses on Australia and draws on a wide variety of articles in the daily and weekly press including interviews, law reports, letters to newspaper editors, and reprints and summaries of international news of busking in Europe and North America. The article charts busking culture principally from 1860 to 1920, when the Australian newspaper industry was at its zenith. Utilizing recent methodologies derived from newspaper research in a digital environment, the article documents the plight of buskers, the instruments they played, the repertory they performed, the money they earned, and the moral codes they were thought to subvert. The article provides an account of the profession of busking in nineteenth-century Australia and the types of social, musical, and moral issues that arose from debates over the value of the busking profession.

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十九世纪在澳大利亚的街头艺人和街头艺人

街头艺人和街头艺人的历史是音乐学研究中的一个相对较新的领域：最近的奖学金主要涉及19世纪伦敦和巴黎的街头音乐家研究。但是，本文的重点是澳大利亚，并在每日和每周的报纸上引用了各种各样的文章，包括访谈，法律报道，给报纸编辑的信，以及欧洲和北美的国际街头新闻的重印和摘要。这篇文章主要记录了1860年至1920年的街头狂欢文化，当时澳大利亚的报纸业正处于顶峰时期。利用数字环境下报纸研究的最新方法，本文记录了街头艺人的困境，他们演奏的乐器，演奏的曲目，所赚的钱，以及他们被认为颠覆的道德准则。本文介绍了19世纪澳大利亚的街头艺人职业，以及对街头艺人职业价值的辩论引起的社会，音乐和道德问题的类型。