Live fast, die old: experiences of ageing in portuguese punk DIY scenes since the late 1970s

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2024

Authors

Guerra, Paula (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Punk, ageing and time

Pages: 93-111

ISBN: 978-3-031-47822-2 (hbk); 978-3-031-47825-3 (pbk)

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-47823-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan - Springer

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47823-9_6

Abstract (EN): In Portugal, the contemporary specificities stemming from a socio-history marked by a decades-long dictatorship mean more unstable forms of youth transition extend throughout life and become a social condition in adulthood. This circumstance goes far beyond the professional dimension of life: it is mirrored in the family, parenting, leisure, body awareness and sociability. This chapter focuses on the analysis of the ageing experiences of DIY music scene producers from the late 1970s to the present. Armed with a diachronic view and with a synchronic cut-out, it is believed that these cultural/creative producers aged 50 or more, through their participation in DIY music scenes (punk, indie-rock, rap, EDM), have contributed decisively to the reconfiguration of Portuguese contemporaneity through their cultural, artistic and creative experiences (where music is mixed with design, illustration, street art and digital arts). Thus, the chapter’s fundamental objective is to systematise the lifestyles in these composite cultural scenes poured into cultural/creative experiences translated into the body, fashion and style; mirrored in family relationships, parenting and gender; experienced in careers, professions, alternative economies and training experiences throughout life; and materialised in practices, discourses and patrimonial and mnemonic objects.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific