Rock and roll is our work: Legião Urbana from underground to mainstream

• Grant number: 11/52103-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Bergamo Idargo
• Grantee: Alexandre Bergamo Idargo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

There is consensus in the academic and journalistic works that rock and roll their places in the media and recognition of Brazilian music only with the emergence of national bands of the 80s. Thus, this research aims to understand the interference of multiple social agents involved and mobilized in the consolidation of a specific field of music in Brazil, the field of rock: music producers, journalistic and bands, in this case "Legião Urbana". From the analysis of entices published in newspapers, on magazine Bizz and interviews, I did with some journalistic and the former producer of the "Legião", that the positions and the provisions of these agents have built the evaluation judgement of the genre, the artists and production of discs, consolidating spaces for Brazilian rock and a generation of professionals. (AU)