No fluxo da batida: a cultura juvenil do funk circulando em uma escola pública de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

This work belongs to PPGE/UFSM, standing in the Research Line 2- School and Public Policy Practice. The research proposed to hold an interface between studies on Youth; Youth Cultures; School culture; School practices and high school, giving centrality to youth culture of Funk. Seeking inspiration in the theoretical and methodological perspective of Cultural Studies and analytical exercise of speech, it was intended to examine how the Youth Culture of Funk, produced / consumed in non-school spaces, has circulated a public school in Santa Maria / RS. The survey was conducted in early character, in particular public school, through observation and questionnaire about the musical taste of / the students, in order to select the subjects that would be part of the research. After the selection of / the young people who are related in some way to the Funk, held individual semistructured interviews with six young high school with three teachers / the representatives of the curriculum area Languages, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, in addition to teaching the Integrated Seminar discipline and representative of the pedagogical coordination. Also, as part of the materiality of research, entry was made in the field in six city night parties to identify how youth culture in question circulated by the municipality. The results indicate that the youth belonging bindings interviewed with Funk are traversed by the elements: rhythm / beat, dance, dress and specific representations in the clips and speeches of letters. Already the prejudices of society, come from the non-recognition of Funk as a cultural manifestation, the consumer association of the popular classes, the use of clothing associated with marginal youths and erotic content of the letters. As to how circulating in the city, Funk is synonymous with fun, it welcomes and promotes entertainment several youths; market, because in addition to the formal market parties also moves the peripheral household economy, through held informal joints and finally; of ladaia once it brings out several confusions involving trams city rivals. The movement of Funk Youth Culture in the school environment, spaces and plural forms were identified. Above all, the yard, the playground and the classroom has been invaded by the technology of mobile devices, which in turn, guarantee the individual flow or collective enjoyment of culture. This Youth Culture affront to existing School Culture, as is the conflict between the enjoyment of a particular type of culture and not others, certain musical preferences and not others, the use of some clothes and not others, the use of certain dances and not other etc. In contrast, some teachers have done the exercise to appropriate some funk elements to use them in their teaching practices. Portuguese the disciplines, physical education, art and English have already made this movement through the use of skits involving content, expressive rhythmic activities and translation of lyrics into English. Already the discipline of history has appropriated discourses contained in letters to thematize current issues and relate them to the discipline.