DJ Jesus Luz ?! Controversies, subcultural capital and taste performance in an electronic music scene

The article produced by researchers Simone Pereira de Sá and Beatriz Polivanov (UFF) discuss about taste, value and symbolic disputes (Bourdieu, 2008, Thornton, 1996, Frith, 1996) in a Brazilian electronic music scene (Straw, 1991). The analysis focuses on the model Jesus Luz case, who dated the singer Madonna and, later, became DJ, raising a series of controversies related to the authenticity of his performances. The case of Jesus Luz is treated as a controversy (Latour, 1994; 2005) that allows us to apprehend the performance of taste (Hennion, 2003; 2007) of the actors of the electronic scene "in action". Access the full text at the link below.

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