As novas tecnologias informacionais e a internet no trabalho de rapper e DJ na cidade de Pelotas: navegando entre contradições.

Abstract

We in this research aimed understanding the effects of the popularization of the Internet and new technologies in rapper profession and DJ in the city of Pelotas (RS). From this, we check of the grade of these changes that have occurred in the music Market, how they impact the career of the artists and if the new framework arising this scenario is synonymous of the alignment conceptual with a internet. Moreover, we analyze whether the new possibilities to work the artistic careers of musicians resulted in the possibility of economically viabilizarem their lives only through rap, dream shared among the surveyed agents, or is required more work to enhance their incomes. The research was based on the theoretical concept of the Bourdieu's cultural field , in the Castells’s formulations about internet, and with contributions about the present stage of capitalism we live, of the Bauman, Hardt and Negri, Harvey and Sousa Santos. Were conducted 14 interviews with rappers and DJs from four generations of local artists who have shown a radical transformation in the possibilities of building your artwork related before and after internet access, with a high critical content on the internet. Even with the current recognition that there are more possibilities to develop their music, we noted that the vast majority still far from the objective of survive of rap for different motives, according to the artists themselves.