Música punk: Formação política na vida

Abstract

This paper presents the final results of the research developed during my Master’s degree in Musicology at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. It aims to understand how punk music can influence the political training of individuals who later become members of anarchist or libertarian organizations that intend to transform the social reality. The main theoretical framework of this research is Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of production of subjectivity. This work has an ethnographic framework based on a case study in Casa Viva, a libertarian social space in Oporto, Portugal, which is the setting for many cultural activities, including punk concerts. The fieldwork consisted of two main aims and techniques: a) the participant observation in punk
concerts, where methods such as field notes and audiovisual recordings are used in order to understand the social relations and the performative places where punk music is created; b) the dialogical methodology of knowledge building, proposed by Samuel Araújo and the Musicultura group, in which I participated in 2006 and 2007 as a junior researcher. The latter aims to organize a discussion group in Casa Viva, through which I intend to promote the building of collective knowledge.