Corpo em festa: Juventude, sociabilidade e produção de sentidos nos bailes cariocas

Abstract

This research is a study of the representation of young body from the perspective of two dances: the collective debutante ball sponsored by the Police Pacification Units (UPP) to the residents of Rio's communities, and the "passinho" dance, strand funk, which attracts boys from the communities and reframes their social role within the slums where they live. The cutout for the study initially part of the issue of gender assigned to both dances. The end of the funk parties during the peace process of the slums have significant ramifications in the routine of the young people in their community. On one side there was the subject of the claim giving rise to the collective debutant ball as police approach the female audience strategy; on the other one, took the "passinho" to the lan houses and homemade videos were composed to their dissemination and sharing network. The objective is to see young people participating in the dances above the way their bodies are shaped and what aspects influence and affect the formation of youth s identity. The developed methodological strategy included the documentary research available in print and digital media on the balls and dances, holding open and semi-structured interviews, observation of the young participants in the dances, and the theoretical basis for bibliographic research - is considered the benchmark socio-anthropological David Le Breton, Michel Maffesoli, Roberto DaMatta and Hermano Vianna, sociology of Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, cultural studies, Raymond Williams, Peter Burke, Néstor García Canclini and Stuart Hall, in addition to research in communication Denise Siqueira and Christine Greiner. In this research the projections in the body impel a critical view and analyze the references that surround the young residents of Rio's communities.Thus, questioning the representations of the body in party moves this study.