Música que vem do coração: emos, identidades, cultura juvenil & sociabilidade digital

Abstract

The dissertation deals with recent phenomenon marked by identifying urban youth with a music style called emo, young people who are part of this youth culture in particular consider themselves more emotional than other people in general. The Emos also characterizes themselves with a denial of both a group identity as the stigmatized association with a specific style of dress, behave and express themselves. The theoretical issues present in this paper discuss how "Emos" make use of native categories, "emotions" and "expressions of feelings" to represent music, individuals and the group itself. The analytical approach is central on this link between music and emotion as a resource identity. The Internet is an important reference for the research subjects, and as a research tool is accompanied by methodological considerations on virtual ethnography.