0 present participle of busk
1 to play music or sing in a public place so that the people who are there will give money
In areas where busking is not licensed, however, the status inversion model does not and cannot apply.
For some, busking is a way of making a few quid in the holidays.
Its corollary, a 'legitimate' performance, is performance in a space set aside for such an activity, like a concert hall or even a licensed busking pitch.
That's all right, busking is.
This alone is reason enough to assert that, for the performers themselves as well as for their passing audience, busking is a liminal activity within a wider social self-location.
And yet there they are, busking.
Busking is a sophisticated and complex business of appropriating, maintaining, and exploiting liminal space in which those epiphenomena that are not strictly musical have a clear performative and territorial function.
Busking has not been permitted for years, but buskers have not vanished because it is illegal.
