Banca de DEFESA: MARIANA LINS LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARIANA LINS LIMA
DATE: 21/06/2023
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet
TITLE:

Female aging as a nuisance in pop music

KEY WORDS:

pop culture; aging; performance; pop music; ageism.

PAGES: 163
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

By understanding pop music as a space strongly identified with youth, this research seeks to analyze how the permanence of old singers in activity produces discomfort in the sphere of media culture. To this end, the thesis contextualizes the hostile aging scenario in the pop dance genre, showing how advancing age impacts the longevity of the careers of women whose work has been predominantly tied to the athletic, sexualized, and youthful body. It is postulated that surveillance and control of the body synthesize the articulation of Foucauldian biopower logics and the "reprivatization of old age" (DEBERT, 2020) within gender frameworks. We adopt a critique of the idea of positive aging, which is widespread in the media under the guise of self-care and self-help, opening the debate on the epistemic power of old age as an intersectional aspect. Two theoretical contributions are central to the settlement of this argument: the notion of discomfort in the field of music (TROTTA, 2016), developed from the writings about compulsory musical experiences, in displacement to body studies, mapping social discomforts that operate codes of conduct, ethical and aesthetic standards tensioned by the inescapable contact with the presence of the "Other"; and the notion of "moral of smooth skin" (SIBILIA, 2011), to think the rejection of the old body in media instances in the key of obscenity, of the morally inadequate that needs to be disguised by the numerous digital resources available. As a result, this research offers an overview of the modulations that different cultures operate on the nuances of longevity and ageism in the American and Brazilian contexts, pointing to turbulent negotiation zones in which women pop music artists need to act in order to continue occupying media spaces. Two empirical operations are undertaken: in the first one, two American pop music stars (Madonna and Cher) are put in perspective in order to verify, in their live performances, the imperatives of the post-disciplinary body and the crises that emerge from their choice to continue active in the entertainment industry; in the second one, it examines how the Brazilian culture modulates the old age of an important pop singer (Gretchen) in the gears of humor and the “memetization” process as a possibility to remain in the music market spread through the digital social networks. It is concluded that female aging establishes a series of framing problems for pop singers by imposing the need for negotiation and image management, focusing on processes that reveal both the violence of exposure and bullying to the old body, and the capitalization and negotiation of jocosity as a strategy of personal and artistic repositioning (rebranding). We are betting on the premise that the structural violence of ageism can be tensioned, negotiated, and even reversed to the benefit of those who dare not to stop. 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ADRIANA DA ROSA AMARAL
Interna - 1134091 - ANGELA FREIRE PRYSTHON
Externa à Instituição - CINTIA SANMARTIN FERNANDES - UFRJ
Interna - 3227594 - CRISTINA TEIXEIRA VIEIRA DE MELO
Presidente - 2322090 - THIAGO SOARES