Gusto musical y espacio social juvenil. Prácticas musicales en Barcelona y Trójmiasto

Identifier:  TDX:2758

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2758

Authors:  Rodríguez Suárez, Roberto Alexis

Abstract:
The thesis has the overall aim to study the musical practices of young people in the cities of Barcelona and Trójmiasto. The intention is to analyse meaning-making and cultural identity that are generated through them. The approach to the study of taste and youth social space seeks to participate in current debates in these areas, developing a theoretical-methodological approach through a study of musical practices from the biographical trajectories. We are seeking understanding the process of socialization, social divisions and distinctions that constitute contemporary popular culture. This research is based on qualitative analysis of ethnographic data collected in Barcelona and Trójmiasto. In-depth interviews have been the main instrument for data collection for this study. But participant observation, secondary sources and a combination of approaches and analytical techniques were also used. The main results of the research revealed musical taste is an anchor point whose analysis allowed us to bring understanding and perspective to study mediation processes between different social instances in which everyday strategies are set to shape musical tastes. The thesis as a whole demonstrates the usefulness of putting at the center of analysis a scope at what kinds of things people do in relation to music and what kind of discourses people create in relation to music. Thus we presented musical taste as a process rather than an object. In this thesis musical taste is understood from its links through the biographies from an approach in which the taste is an embodied, instrumented and collective practice.