Youth, spatiality and the sensitive experience of music in the public spaces of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 21st Century

Abstract

This review article begins with a critical approach to the formal education received by young people over Latin America, through the ideas of authors such as Freire, Morin and Martín Barbero. The last one leads to the analysis of sensitive knowledge, acquired through aesthetics and the body experience. That is where the focus of the article turns to the music and the way youth cultures gravitate around it. The author does an exhaustive study of literature and resumes his past ethnographic works in order to expose how young people from popular classes, who are stigmatized, have succeeded on taking ownership of the musical brazilian scene, making new businesses inside the industry since the beginning of the 21st Century and giving a new meaning to public spaces of Rio de Janeiro.