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Música e mercado: a força das classificações

2005; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.9771/contemporanea.v3i2.3459

1809-9386

Felipe Trotta,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

Popular music is one of the most important products of midiated mass culture. Listening music is a symbolic act of identification with the representations of life styles, world views and social values within the songs. Most of the music we listen are available to consumption through a musical market that at same time promotes its circulation and organizes the offers of musical products. The musical universe is divided in genres that organizes its consumption and fixes hierarquies, giving keys for its use, interpretations and for the sense circulations through society.