Da house music à bagaceira: uma etnografia sobre música eletrônica, espacialidade e (homo)sexualidade masculina em Recife, PE

Abstract

The dissertation consists of an ethnographic theory of the relation between electronic music and the spaces of urban sociability in Recife and the effects of electronic music on the interaction of men with (homo)sexual practices in these spaces. At the confluence of these two aims, I intend to elaborate a broader ethnographic perspective on electronic music, so that here I analyze not only their sounds, but also the meanings that the interlocutors confer on this musical genre and how electronic music, at its most styles, (re) configures spaces of sociability cut out. To do so, I first try to analyze how the interlocutors, from their generational experiences, experience their (homo)sexual experiences in the spaces of urban sociability they attend. In this way, I aspire to point to the extension of the field of autonomy of these men in a given sociability and how they negotiate their (homo)sexual experiences in a regime of visibility circumscribed socioculturally. Then the focus of the review falls on the place of electronic music in GLS bars and nightclubs and at alternative parties. For that, an ethnographic description of the structural and symbolic dynamics that characterizes these spaces is necessary. I describe, in this sense, both the physical structure and the playful programming. And, fundamentally, I try to describe the interactions mediated by the electronic dance music between the interlocutors. In the third, and last moment, I analyze more systematically the different musical styles that are reproduced in these spaces of sociability. It is, therefore, to point out how electronic music and ethnography spaces of sociability are mutually related. The ethnographic experiences described also seek to point out how electronic music produces effects in the interaction between the interlocutors. This double movement, the relationship of mutuality and the production of effects, in turn, can be seen from the lights, the songs and the particularized dances that set these spaces. This ambiance produces a "sense of intimacy," which excites different erotic expressions and fosters interactional performances among the people who are there. Finally, the scenes of erotic expressions, mediated by the electronic dance music I observed in the field, are related to the way these men experience their (homo)sexual experiences in these spaces.