Contemporary Bohemia

Moss, Geoffrey; Wildfeuer, Rachel; McIntosh, Keith

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18775-0_3

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“…The buzz-centered narratives linked with the still vivid bohemian myth (Heinich 2004; Moss, Wildfeuer, and McIntosh 2019) are questioned from several standpoints in order to significantly deepen and broaden existing academic accounts. Our research is more comprehensive than any previous examinations of the buzz-silence dichotomy.…”

Section: Reconsidering Assumptions: Research Aims and Designmentioning

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Immersion in Buzz or Withdrawal to Solitude? Artists’ Creative and Social Strategies in Urban Settings

Murzyn‐Kupisz

Działek

2021

City & Community

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Expectations of bohemian inclinations of artists and their need to immerse in buzz shape the popular image of artistic professionals and often become a point of departure for public policies. The aim of our study, moving beyond preconceived notions on artists’ social and spatial preferences, has been to take a more nuanced look at artists’ attitudes toward buzz and its presence in urban settings. Drawing on the results of a research project conducted in two Polish cities, we have considered to what extent buzz is indeed an important artistic resource in contemporary urban centers and in what locations and types of spaces it is experienced by artists. We have also taken into account artists’ use of the opposite of buzz, that is, silence and solitude, in their urban creative strategies as well as analyzed what factors impact on the diversity of artists’ attitudes, needs, and strategies toward buzz-rich environments. Research findings point to the complexity of artists’ strategies toward buzz which might in turn translate into specific spatial strategies and choices they make within cities.

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Section: Reconsidering Assumptions: Research Aims and Designmentioning

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“…While artists turn out to be more conventional and less bohemian in their preferences and behavior than expected, other, “ordinary” urbanites have appropriated many elements of a bohemian lifestyle (cf. Brooks 2000; Moss et al 2019).…”

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Immersion in Buzz or Withdrawal to Solitude? Artists’ Creative and Social Strategies in Urban Settings

Murzyn‐Kupisz

Działek

2021

City & Community

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“…Whereas iconic architecture is associated with elite global architectural firms, large and wealthy clients, and flagship cultural amenities, bohemian neighborhoods are typically understood as places where cultural industries and practices develop more organically as individual artists appropriate and thrive within areas of the city that have particular ecological and cultural characteristics (Lloyd 2006; Moss 2017; Moss, Wildfeuer, and McIntosh 2019). For example, Jane Jacobs’s ([1961] 1992, p. 188) famous phrase “new ideas must use old buildings” indicated the importance of the existing built environment in nurturing human creativity as opposed to designing new, purpose-built architecture.…”

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“… 1. Recent studies of bohemia have produced a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between traditional bohemians and the economically elite bourgeoisie than suggested by the concept of the “bobo.” Whereas Moss, Wildfeuer, and McIntosh’s (2019) study of Philadelphia found a distinct lack of antibourgeois attitudes among bohemians, Deener (2012)’s study of Venice, Los Angeles, found significant conflict. Meanwhile, Lloyd (2006, 2017) has called attention to the fact that bohemians are the subjects of economic exploitation, generating significant value in the modern symbolic economy, but receiving little financial compensation in return. …”

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Starchitects in Bohemia: An Exploration of Cultural Cities from the “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up”

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Patterson

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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Urban scholars have devoted significant attention to the “cultural city,” but less attention has been paid to how different forms of culture relate to each other and to the larger urban environment. In this article, we compare two quintessential forms of culture-led urbanization that represent opposite ends on a spectrum: iconic architecture and neo-bohemia. While iconic architecture is a “top-down” approach to culture involving large budgets, elite “starchitects,” and powerful clients, neo-bohemia tends to be a “bottom-up” phenomenon formed as individual artists gravitate toward particular neighborhoods, establishing arts scenes. Using a combination of neighborhood case studies and national-level quantitative analysis, we investigate the ecological relationship between these two phenomena. In doing so, we provide new insights into the geographic and social structure of the cultural city.

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Contemporary Bohemia

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Immersion in Buzz or Withdrawal to Solitude? Artists’ Creative and Social Strategies in Urban Settings

Immersion in Buzz or Withdrawal to Solitude? Artists’ Creative and Social Strategies in Urban Settings

Starchitects in Bohemia: An Exploration of Cultural Cities from the “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up”

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