Banca de DEFESA: PEDRO ALVES FERREIRA JUNIOR

DO YOU HAVE GOGO, DEAR? " SYMBOLIC DISPUTES IN RECIFE BREGA MUSIC NETWORK

communication; performance; controversy; brega music; femininity.

The presence of women in the brega music from Recife brings to light asymmetries of gender, race and social class that present themselves in a network, from identity dynamics, affections and performance values that, while negotiating with the figure of the American pop diva, they also reappropriate the tradition of the romantic singer built in Brazilian music, since the 20th century, for the construction of a brega femininity. This work intends to analyze, in a qualitative way, the associations formed by the controversies and symbolic disputes based on media misunderstanding starring the singers Eliza Mell and Michelle Melo, here entitled “tem gogó, querida?”, which occurred in October 2018. Using a methodology inspired by the Actor-Network Theory (LATOUR, 2000; 2005) and appropriated by Simone Pereira de Sá (2013; 2014) as “cartography of the treta”, it is proposed to track actors who perform their tastes and values regarding the female presence in brega music. The "treta" here is taken as a media event from which it is possible to observe disputes regarding voice, body, femininity and age in brega music. The analyzed episode suggests that moral disputes over gender and value of performance of what it means to sing well in brega music are fundamental to the spread and longevity of this episode in digital culture.