Redefining sounds, outlining places: Rock, scenes and networks

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2016

Authors

Moreira, Tânia (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Redefining art worlds in the late modernity

Pages: 191-213

Electronic ISBN: 978-989-8648-86-0

Publisher: Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Arts

CORDIS: Humanities > Arts

Other information

Subject: Música

Abstract (EN): In this chapter we present the results of a research project conducted between 2012/20131 which sought to contribute to the sociological thought about musical events linked to pop rock, attempting to understand how and to what extent the NUT III Tâmega is able to support a rock scene oscillating between the global and the local. As a peripheral region In the Portuguese context, Tâmega is a region that promotes conditions in which culture and recreational areas take a strong role in the consolidation of young people¿s individual identities. The results show us a range of rock music fans, the development of musical projects as well as small events linked to the promotion and discussion of this musical genre. However, these same social, economic and cultural conditions of Tâmega end up working as an obstacle to further development of the rock scene: there are more bands, more events, more audiences, but, paradoxically, this intensity has an almost spontaneous nature, and these musicians, mediators and consumers continue to mobilize themselves especially in an informal, familiar, amateurish logic, making this scene not only a local but an affective one.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific