Tramas simbólicas:a dinâmica das turmas de bate-bolas do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This research addresses the contemporary manifestation of the groups of bate-bolas of the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The groups of bate-bolas can be understood as groups of individuals which disguise themselfs and behave in peculiar ways. Regarding the visibility that other events carnival reach - as is the case, for example, of Escolas de Samba - it can be considered that there are few studies focused on the bate-bolas . Among the studies on the bate-bolas , realizes is a predominance of understanding of the concept of popular culture as the field of tradition, the purity and cultural autonomy, in relation to mass culture. This research proposes an approach different from conventional, meaning a manifestation of the groups of bate-bolas for their contemporary transformations and differences. For this, based on the assumptions of Cultural Studies, which are a subject which the cultural impurity is the fundamental criterion of study of popular culture, which is seen as an arena of dispute symbolic meanings. In order to implement these precepts to the current situation of the groups of bate-bolas , this work examines the various ways in which the revelers formulate their visions of private joke, especially throughing of materials and configurations of elements of elements associated performer a different types of behaviors related to bate-bolas contemporaries.