Low-tech appropriations in funk carioca genre: Batalha do passinho and the Peripheric Popular Music network

Authors

  • Simone Pereira de Sa Universidade Federal Fluminense - Professora associada - Dep de Estudos de Mídia e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2014.161.04

Abstract

The paper addresses the phenomenon called “Batalha do Passinho”, a “challenge” among young dancers of the musical genre funk carioca, who gained visibility through choreographies shot on mobile phones and disseminated on YouTube. Departing from this case, we intend, first, to discuss the mediation role of mobile and locative media such as mobile phones articulated with musical platforms such as YouTube, producing some reconfigurations of the funk scene, besides its new links with other “peripherical” musical scenes, such as the technomelody scene from Pará. Further, the paper seeks to discuss the consequences of this mixture to the stability of the notion of genre, which seems to be in a moment of intense destabilization as a result of creative appropriation that occurs in social networks, resulting in the emergence of a “Peripheric” Popular Music network.

Keywords: funk carioca genre, YouTube, mobile phones.

Author Biography

Simone Pereira de Sa, Universidade Federal Fluminense - Professora associada - Dep de Estudos de Mídia e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação

Professora do Dep de Estudos Culturais e Mídia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense

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Published

2013-10-07

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2014): January/April

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