Ser jovem no ensino médio em tempo integral: experiências e sociabilidades com a música

Abstract

Young people are social beings who create their own forms of expression and interaction; in short, youth cultures that give unique meanings to the places where they live or circulate, be it their homes, the city, or the school. Taking high schools as a reference, the unique universe of cultural references and social relations that young people communicate and establish in their daily school life is marked, among other languages ​​and modes of expression, by diverse experiences with music. This investigation into the youth experience with music at school aims to understand how emerging youth sociabilities arise from music and the specific meanings and contexts of such emergence in daily school life. Taking as the locus of investigation two public full-time high schools (EEMTI), one located in the city of Horizonte and the other in the city of Fortaleza, this mixed-methods research seeks to understand how young people make school in their own way, despite the institutional limitations surrounding the process of becoming a student. The investigation illustrated the diverse modes of musical consumption, both individual and collective, that mobilize a reflective relationship between young people and music in schools with extended school hours, where new pedagogical spaces and times also broaden the possibilities for experiences with music. In the contemporary cultural context, the young people surveyed evidenced more fragmented, flexible, and instantaneous modes of consumption that reinforce the fundamental influence of technologies on musical production, circulation, and consumption, and list music as a strategic element of expression of youth cultures, with adherence to or tension in relation to school culture. Based on the study of youth and their cultures, this research also presents a proposal for didactic-curricular intervention that can unfold the discussions listed in debates among school subjects about their experiences and youth movements mobilized in different contexts and eras.