Motivation for Engaging in Community-Generated Music Events

Community-Designed Music Events
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Community-Designed Music Events
Motivation for Engaging in Community-Generated Music Events
Individuals desire to participate in community-designed music events motivated by various factors and seeking to derive various benefits. Motivations can be defined as the fundamental reasons for behavior. As used in leisure, tourism, and recreation literature, motivation comprises an internal factor that arouses, integrates, and directs an individual's behavior (Perkins, 2012). The decision for individuals to attend popular music events or engage in Creative Placemaking is driven by a motivation to fulfill a desired need. In this case, it can be argued that the desired needs comprise benefits or perceived benefits of Creative Placemaking. Scholars have established several motivations for and benefits of community-generated music events. According to Howard (n.d.), cultural events can validate community groups, create new hybrid identities, and introduce new ideas. Hybridization entails the interaction of national and global cultures to create new cultures. Creative Placemaking allows people to participate in creating and maintaining such identities and validate their current community status and identities.
The Need to Belong
The motivation for participating in music events depends on demographic characteristics. In other words, different ages, cultures, and genders pursue music events driven by different internal factors. The current literature has provided adequate illustrations of such motivations. For example, older people in Australia participate in music events because they want to socialize with other people, feel a sense of belonging and group membership, and feel supported (Lee et al., 2016). Current research indicates that all demographics engage in music events to be part of a community, build an identity, and improve their well-being. Many cultures use music and other community-generated activities to boost a sense of belonging and build unity among society members (Sa'id et al., 2021). For example, indigenous music is critical to the culture of indigenous people since it is a means of expression and transmitting culture to younger generations. In other words, indigenous music unites the indigenous people and defines their identity. Therefore, participation in such events becomes a means of self-expression. Music events may also be part of religion or other cultural activities that unite people. For instance, music, dance, and religion are central to the Bapedi society, where music manifests this society's cultural heritage and unity of its people (Lebaka, 2020). Since every society places varied significance on music, cultural reasons and the need to maintain identities motivate people to engage in Creative Placemaking involving music activities.
The need for a sense of belonging drives the motivation to be part of a community. Even without returning to the societies’ cultural roots, modern secular communities are motivated by the potential to build peer relationships where the sense of community or belonging rules supreme (Talissé, 2018). A music program can improve the relationship between the community ...