Music and Youth in Brazilian Contemporary Society

• Authors: Lívia Barbosa , Letícia Veloso , Veranise Dubeux
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based on qualitative and quantitative research with 1,080 youth in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Porto Alegre, this article analyzes the role of music in the constitution of young people's everyday lives. Focusing on how youth obtain, store, and listen to music, as well as on how they describe the presence of music in their lives, we argue that music – facilitated by digital technology – permeates and gives meaning to young people's lives in a way more pervasive than ever before, to the extent that, in their words, it constitutes the ‘soundtrack’ of each individual life. We propose to understand this puzzling statement through a material culture framework, and to do so we ask: how do youth currently give meaning to music as a key feature of life, and how do music and the objects through which it is experienced constitute life as such?

Keywords

EN

music; youth; materiality; technology; digitality

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-46

Dates

published

2012-02-01

online

2015-05-04

Contributors

author

Lívia Barbosa

• School of Marketing and Consumption, São Paulo, Brazil

author

Letícia Veloso

• Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

author

Veranise Dubeux

• School of Advertising and Marketing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2012-0003