Culture: concepts and Brazilian pop music

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Comunicação (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/ccomunicacao/article/view/67651
• topic: Cultura; Valor; Música Popular; Música Pop; Jornalismo Cultural; Culture; Value; Popular Music; Pop Music; Cultural Journalism; Cultura; Valor; Musica Popular; Música pop; Periodismo cultural

This article is the result of a proposed discussion about Brazilian pop culture in contemporary times, especially in relation to pop music and the conflicting value rules engendered regarding this expression. We propose as context of analysis the changes in relation to the notion of pop music in Brazil (from the 1950s to the current scenario), which has been generating the discussions here addressed. Taking as a starting point the discussion about the concept of culture (EAGLETON, 2003; WILLIAMS, 1979; 2011), we resume studies on pop and popular culture/music (FRITH, 1996; MARTÍN-BARBERO, 1997; SOARES, 2015; JANOTTI JR, 2005; 2011; 2015; 2020), as well as thinkers of culture and society from the late nineteenth century (MAUSS, 2008) to the contemporary (HARAWAY, 2009; CUNHA, 2009), to ground a broader notion of Brazilian pop/popular culture and music, and thus recognize its different forms of value. We seek, finally, to intend Brazilian cultural journalism towards overcoming a resistance among journalists to recognize diverse valuations in recent Brazilian pop music.