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| Author(s): |
Gibran Teixeira Braga
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-04-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Julio Assis Simoes;
Maria Elvira Diaz Benitez;
Carolina Branco de Castro Ferreira;
Isadora Lins França;
Laura Moutinho da Silva
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| Advisor: | Julio Assis Simoes |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this research is to present two scenes of electronic underground music parties, one in the city of São Paulo and another in Berlin. These parties are attended by an audience sexually diversified, mostly from middle-class: DJs, musicians and party producers, as well as university students, artists and professionals of social communication (design, advertising, audiovisual, among other areas). The parties gather people to dance and listen to music, consume licit and illicit drugs and socialize. They are fertile environments for aesthetic and sensorial experiments and provide space for varied erotic-affective practices; also often feature artistic performances that raise questions about non-standard bodies, gender, sexuality, race and class. In São Paulo, part of the scene is composed of street parties, which evoke debates about public space, accompanying certain discussions of contemporary urban militancy. The other part is made up of parties held in spaces other than clubs, such as bars, sheds, factories, parking lots. In Berlin, the visibility and growing nightlife tourism has stressed the underground/mainstream polarity and the search for balance between the opening of the scene and the maintenance of safe spaces. The culture of pleasure, ecstasy, and freedom lived at the parties brings people together in an way that is unusual in other settings. Potentialized by the collective use of certain drugs and the consequent relaxation of social barriers of gender and sexuality, the clubber experience stimulates new ways of relating to body and pleasure that displace norms and conventions naturalized in wider society. However, tensions and inequalities regarding social markers of difference persist. Eminently collective, the clubber experience is topic of debate and dispute, and translates in politics of body and pleasure, surpassing the weekend and advance into daily life of many participants of the scenes. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/04891-7 - Over the rainbow? Differences and transits in the gay night in São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Gibran Teixeira Braga |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |