The Lived Experience of Female Buskers (Azmaris): A Phenomenology Study from Bahir Dar City Administration, Ethiopia

Etienat, Wallelign

dc.contributor.author	Etienat, Wallelign
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-22T10:35:53Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-22T10:35:53Z
dc.date.issued	2021-07-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12227
dc.description.abstract	Azmari has been a long presented tradition throughout the history of Ethiopia. However, little attention has been given about their lived experiences though their poems are widely circulated in the society. To fill this gap, this study is attempted to uncover the lived experiences of female Azamris (buskers) in Bahir dar City Administration. To meet the objective of the study, qualitative approach with phenomenology design was employed. The data was extracted from 10 purposively selected participants through in-depth interview data collection tool. The data was analyzed via thematic analysis technique. The study result indicated that women Azmaries have enjoyed varieties opportunities which include salary, reward/gift, access to visit other place within or outside Ethiopia, access to meet influential people and music producers, getting social respect and access to release music album. The result also shows that female Azmaris have confronted different saddles. The main challenge is associated with the current political instability and COVID-19 pandemic. Due to such incidents, the income of the female Azmaris has sharply been decreased. Apart from economic problem, female Azmari are exposed for various health problems that arise due to night work and continues vocal performance. Physical pain and throat infections are common health problems for the Azmaris. The female Azmaris have also faced various gender based violence. To cope with all these challenges, they have used various mechanisms which include being patient, praying, developing resilience behavior, establishing marriage life and being transparent to convince others. It can be concluded that female Azmaris’ life can be seen from two polarized perspectives— on the one hand they get advantages and on the other hand they face various challenges. It is, therefore, suggested that various governmental organizations like labor and social affairs office, saving and credit institutions, women focused organizations particularly women youth and child affairs office, women federation , women league and also non-governmental organizations should have to support them to mitigate the problems of the Azmaris whereby they able to improve the life of female Azma	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Gender and Development Studies	en_US
dc.title	The Lived Experience of Female Buskers (Azmaris): A Phenomenology Study from Bahir Dar City Administration, Ethiopia	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US