Esta tese – Tá Ligado?! Práticas de escuta de jovens urbanos contemporâneos e panoramas sonoros na metrópole, uma pauta para a Educação – tem como objetivo mostrar e compreender a produtividade das práticas de escuta de jovens urbanos contemporâneos a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis na construção de identidades e culturas juvenis. Neste sentido busco caracterizar as práticas de escuta, mais do que a ação física de ouvir a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis, praticada pelos garotos e garotas que circulam pelo espaço urbano, caracterizar a escuta como prática social, prática de significação, portanto, prática cultural. Este estudo está inscrito no campo dos Estudos Culturais, adotando a etnografia pós-moderna e fotoetnografia como instrumentos teórico-metodológicos, operacionalizados através de observação e registros de conversas, diários de campo, diários fotográficos e acompanhamento de produtos midiáticos em circulação durante o período da sua produção. O trabalho de observação no campo foi desenvolvido em Porto Alegre (RS), de julho de 2007 a julho de 2011. Também foram realizadas oito entrevistas etnográficas com garotos e garotas que permaneceram ao longo do processo de pesquisa como colaboradores mais constantes, considerando a pluralidade do universo investigado. A análise desenvolvida mostra a produtividade das práticas de escuta a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis sobre a produção de determinadas identidades juvenis e de um estilo de vida que tem a conectividade como característica mais forte. / This thesis – Tá Ligado?! Práticas de Escuta de Jovens Urbanos Contemporâneos e Panoramas Sonoros na Metrópole, uma Pauta para a Educação – aims to show and to understand the productivity of the contemporary uban youth listening practices from portable sound devices i te construction of youth identities and cultures. In this sense I seek to characterize the listening practices in this research, rather than the physical act of listening from such portable sound devices, practiced by boys and girls moving through the Porto Alegre city spaces, I characterize the listening practices as social practice, practice of signification, therefore, a cultural practice. The theoretical support of this study is found in the field of Cultural Studies, adopting the postmodern ethnography and photoethnography as theoretical and methodological tools. It had been operacionalized through field observation and conversations records, field notes, photographic narratives, and monitoring of media products in circulation during th period of the research production. The field observation had taken place in Porto Alegre (RS) from July 2007 to July 2011. I had also conducted ethnographic interviews with eight boys and girls who stayed throughout the research process as more constant collaborators, considering the plurality of the universe investigated. The analyzes show the productivity of the listening practices from portable sound devices on certain youth identities and cultures, and e production of a lifestyle that has connectivity as he strongest characteristic.

Esta tese – Tá Ligado?! Práticas de escuta de jovens urbanos contemporâneos e panoramas sonoros na metrópole, uma pauta para a Educação – tem como objetivo mostrar e compreender a produtividade das práticas de escuta de jovens urbanos contemporâneos a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis na construção de identidades e culturas juvenis. Neste sentido busco caracterizar as práticas de escuta, mais do que a ação física de ouvir a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis, praticada pelos garotos e garotas que circulam pelo espaço urbano, caracterizar a escuta como prática social, prática de significação, portanto, prática cultural. Este estudo está inscrito no campo dos Estudos Culturais, adotando a etnografia pós-moderna e fotoetnografia como instrumentos teórico-metodológicos, operacionalizados através de observação e registros de conversas, diários de campo, diários fotográficos e acompanhamento de produtos midiáticos em circulação durante o período da sua produção. O trabalho de observação no campo foi desenvolvido em Porto Alegre (RS), de julho de 2007 a julho de 2011. Também foram realizadas oito entrevistas etnográficas com garotos e garotas que permaneceram ao longo do processo de pesquisa como colaboradores mais constantes, considerando a pluralidade do universo investigado. A análise desenvolvida mostra a produtividade das práticas de escuta a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis sobre a produção de determinadas identidades juvenis e de um estilo de vida que tem a conectividade como característica mais forte. / This thesis – Tá Ligado?! Práticas de Escuta de Jovens Urbanos Contemporâneos e Panoramas Sonoros na Metrópole, uma Pauta para a Educação – aims to show and to understand the productivity of the contemporary uban youth listening practices from portable sound devices i te construction of youth identities and cultures. In this sense I seek to characterize the listening practices in this research, rather than the physical act of listening from such portable sound devices, practiced by boys and girls moving through the Porto Alegre city spaces, I characterize the listening practices as social practice, practice of signification, therefore, a cultural practice. The theoretical support of this study is found in the field of Cultural Studies, adopting the postmodern ethnography and photoethnography as theoretical and methodological tools. It had been operacionalized through field observation and conversations records, field notes, photographic narratives, and monitoring of media products in circulation during th period of the research production. The field observation had taken place in Porto Alegre (RS) from July 2007 to July 2011. I had also conducted ethnographic interviews with eight boys and girls who stayed throughout the research process as more constant collaborators, considering the plurality of the universe investigated. The analyzes show the productivity of the listening practices from portable sound devices on certain youth identities and cultures, and e production of a lifestyle that has connectivity as he strongest characteristic.

Esta tese – Tá Ligado?! Práticas de escuta de jovens urbanos contemporâneos e panoramas sonoros na metrópole, uma pauta para a Educação – tem como objetivo mostrar e compreender a produtividade das práticas de escuta de jovens urbanos contemporâneos a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis na construção de identidades e culturas juvenis. Neste sentido busco caracterizar as práticas de escuta, mais do que a ação física de ouvir a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis, praticada pelos garotos e garotas que circulam pelo espaço urbano, caracterizar a escuta como prática social, prática de significação, portanto, prática cultural. Este estudo está inscrito no campo dos Estudos Culturais, adotando a etnografia pós-moderna e fotoetnografia como instrumentos teórico-metodológicos, operacionalizados através de observação e registros de conversas, diários de campo, diários fotográficos e acompanhamento de produtos midiáticos em circulação durante o período da sua produção. O trabalho de observação no campo foi desenvolvido em Porto Alegre (RS), de julho de 2007 a julho de 2011. Também foram realizadas oito entrevistas etnográficas com garotos e garotas que permaneceram ao longo do processo de pesquisa como colaboradores mais constantes, considerando a pluralidade do universo investigado. A análise desenvolvida mostra a produtividade das práticas de escuta a partir de artefatos sonoros portáteis sobre a produção de determinadas identidades juvenis e de um estilo de vida que tem a conectividade como característica mais forte. / This thesis – Tá Ligado?! Práticas de Escuta de Jovens Urbanos Contemporâneos e Panoramas Sonoros na Metrópole, uma Pauta para a Educação – aims to show and to understand the productivity of the contemporary uban youth listening practices from portable sound devices i te construction of youth identities and cultures. In this sense I seek to characterize the listening practices in this research, rather than the physical act of listening from such portable sound devices, practiced by boys and girls moving through the Porto Alegre city spaces, I characterize the listening practices as social practice, practice of signification, therefore, a cultural practice. The theoretical support of this study is found in the field of Cultural Studies, adopting the postmodern ethnography and photoethnography as theoretical and methodological tools. It had been operacionalized through field observation and conversations records, field notes, photographic narratives, and monitoring of media products in circulation during th period of the research production. The field observation had taken place in Porto Alegre (RS) from July 2007 to July 2011. I had also conducted ethnographic interviews with eight boys and girls who stayed throughout the research process as more constant collaborators, considering the plurality of the universe investigated. The analyzes show the productivity of the listening practices from portable sound devices on certain youth identities and cultures, and e production of a lifestyle that has connectivity as he strongest characteristic.

This project provides rhetorical and sonic exploration of listening practices, musical song, crowded subject formations and multimodal composition pedagogy. Conceptually drawing from rhetorical studies, sound studies, queer and women of color (Q/WOC) feminisms, cultural studies, affect studies, and composition pedagogies, the project maintains commitments to multiply situated knowledge production. The project's sonic inquiries and cross-disciplinary interests offer scholarly interventions primarily aimed at improving rhetoric and composition studies analytical and affective responsiveness to sonority. Secondarily, the project is aimed at increasing sound studies rhetorical responsivity and attention to personified performance techniques. The project’s first chapter argues that disciplinary distancing between rhetorical, compositional and sonic arts can be lessened through the temporal principle of kairos. This chapter also overviews key methodological concepts, offers working definitions of key terms, and glosses the project's chapter progression. The second chapter is a multi-faceted literature review that surveys the ways listening is rhetorically emplaced and affectively confined within classical and contemporary discussions of Aristotelian epideixis. This chapter notes the limits of commonly accepted and received feminist rhetorical "recovery" projects that frequently place listening in service to logos; highlights the ways listening can act as a generative method of performative "respond-ability" through certain positions; and resonantly attunes listening to two audio-visual materials: timbral tonality and rhythmic temporality. Chapters three and four analytically train listening practices on two specific genres of musical sound: protest song and EDM-pop musical productions. The third chapter analyzes singer-songwriter-activist Nina Simone’s early 1960's protest song "Mississippi Goddam" while the fourth chapter focuses on contemporary singer-songwriter Sia's EDM-pop productions for "Chandelier." Treated as case studies, these songs and artists exemplify body-subject impressionability, political disaffection from historically dominant forms of whitened, hetero-patriarchal, liberalized ideology, and the performative possibilities of crossing and crowding subject-hood through persona crafting. Following these case studies, the project concludes by offering conceptual im/possibilities and pedagogical materials for rhetorically teaching composition as a sonic art. The fifth and final chapter conceptually intervenes in rhetoric and composition's pedagogical tendencies toward elevating and espousing notions of the minimally affected, individual, authorial, agentive rhetor/writer by developing a series of activities designed to give instructional supports for scaffolding student learning and composing specific to vocalic sound and the sorts of affects engendered in listening.

Cette recherche interroge les pratiques d'écoute musicale des adolescents en régime numérique. Depuis la « démocratisation » des voies d'accès illégales (Napster, KazAa, eMule, et aujourd'hui le convertisseur YouTube) et l'avènement du numérique (abonnements téléphoniques et ADSL, taux d'équipements), les modes de production et de consommation de la musique se trouvent bouleversées. Nous appuyant sur une ethnographie (combinant entretiens compréhensifs et observation participante) menée auprès d'adolescents, notre objectif est de comprendre comment la musique peut faire sens dans leur quotidien. Nous avons cherché à comprendre de quelles manières la musique, à l'ère du numérique, participe des phénomènes de construction identitaire – à la fois individuelle, mais aussi sociale et générationnelle –, ainsi que de la structuration des univers culturels des adolescents. Questionnant les usages et les ergonomies des équipements, cette étude brosse un portrait des différentes situations d'écoute en fonction des éléments pragmatiques et contextuels. La méthodologie qualitative que nous avons choisie a permis de faire émerger les médiations au sein de la cellule familiale entre frères et sœurs et entre parents et enfants, révélant la fonction phatique de la musique, dont le numérique se fait le support. / This research examines the music listening practices of teenagers in a digital era. Production and receptions modes as well as the music itself have deeply changed since the “democratisation” of the illegal ways to access music (Napster, KazAa, eMule, and even now the YouTube converter) and the advent of the digital technologies (phone subscriptions and ADSL, household penetration rates of computers). Based on an ethnography of adolescents (combining comprehensive interviews with participant observation), we aim to understand how music makes sense in their everyday lives. We have thus tried to understand in what ways music, in the digital era, contributes to the phenomena of identity construction - individual, but also social and generational - as well as to the configuration of teenagers’ cultural worlds. Questioning the ergonomics and uses of devices, this study depicts different listening situations in accordance with pragmatic and contextual elements. The qualitative methodology that we have chosen enabled us to highlight the mediations in the family unit between brothers and sisters and between parents and children, which revealed the phatic expression of the music supported by digital technology.