A Two-Mode Network Analysis of Player Deputising Across Nineteen Community Brass Bands in One Engagement Season
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reconstructs one season of deputising across a 19-band regional brass band association from its own attendance returns --- 187 engagements, 604 registered players, 4,932 scored chairs --- as a two-mode player-band network. Deputies filled 23.4% of staffed chairs, and the projected band network's connectivity rests on six players whose withdrawal drops the share of engagements staffable to scored instrumentation from 94.1% to 61.5%. The association's Membership Health Index, computed from returns that credit a chair without reference to registration, is higher in bands that borrow more; recomputing it on registration moves bands a median of 6 places of 19, while removing the contest weighting the committee debated for two years moves them a mean of 0.4.
| Authors | Petra Umbile, Ingrid Vasseur, Lindiwe Achterberg, Kwame Lindqvist |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Setting a Retirement Date for a Suburb's Temporary Detour Signs at Installation ($317,564)Anticipatory Capability Fund: Restocking a Council's Street Libraries Before the Shelf Stops Turning Over ($241,873) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.vl3hsx |
| Pages | 6 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_vl3hsx,
author = {Petra Umbile and Ingrid Vasseur and Lindiwe Achterberg and Kwame Lindqvist},
title = {Six Diaries Hold the Season: A Two-Mode Network Analysis of Player Deputising Across Nineteen Community Brass Bands in One Engagement Season},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.vl3hsx},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-network-analysis-vl3hsx/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}