Gosto musical e engajamento juvenil: o estilo universitário

Abstract

Music is an important tool for young people identity construction because identities are not given a priori. They are socially constructed. This work discusses the role of music as identities expression in two distinct time periods: the 1960’s, when Brazilian music suffered big transformations and some rhythms emerged as the voice of an engaged youth, and the contemporary period, when rhythms called “university music” came up and the university students seem to have no problem on identifying themselves with different musical expressions at the same time. In this sense, the university students’ musical taste loses its hardness and becomes fluid, heterogeneous. Thus, this work seeks to understand the relationship between university students and music in these different moments, as well as to comprehend the youth’s musical taste transformation, previously associated to a taste of the elite and, in the current days, a taste seemed as a popular one. To comprehend this transformation it was necessary to design the youth’s profile by means of applying a questionnaire at private and public universities in Juiz de Fora/MG, that allowed us to clarify these modifications.