Constructing desires and differences: an ethnography of the indie rock scene in São Paulo

Author(s)

Ane Talita da Silva Rocha

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-11-29

Examining board members

Heloisa Buarque de Almeida; Regina Facchini; Julio Assis Simoes

• Advisor: Heloisa Buarque de Almeida

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the articulation between distinct social markers of difference, various styles and the logic underlying classificatory systems used by young customers of the Delicious party. This party takes place every Saturday at the Funhouse nightclub, located at Bela Cintra Street in the city of Sao Paulo and specialized in indie rock style. The thesis discusses how the logic underlying classifications are articulated by customers in the production of a discourse about themselves as desirable subjects (or not), preferably within the context of affective-sexual partnerships. These discourses are also employed to foreground fields of existing possibilities and actions for these youngsters. Observant participation as well as interviews with costumers, party DJs and creators were the techniques utilized in this research. There is a discourse which claims that, in the Delicious, different categories of classification coexist in a friendly manner, however, analysis reveals that new cleavages and differentiations are constructed in order to make coexistence possible. In this sense, the youngsters bring forth new moralities, in an effort to maintain themselves within a proper framework, namely within heterosexuality. Sexual experimentations follow their own logic in this context, which dialogues with the new boundaries utilized by youngsters. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/12878-2 - Building desires and differences: an ethnography of the indie rock scene in São Paulo
• Grantee: Ane Talita da Silva Rocha
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master