Music, cosmopolitisms and cities: youngsters experiences of migration in São Paulo

Abstract

This article presents aspects of the ongoing research on musical-mediatic practices of young migrants in São Paulo in their identity constructions and visibility/audibility strategies. The activities of youth groups linked to music in their articulations with groups of cultural activism, migrant activisms and those linked to the uses of the city are the focus here. We articulate a discussion of migrations, cosmopolitanisms and cities in global times and analyze the political practices and meanings of these groups and the role of the city as a place of fixed and flowed elements engendering spaces of interaction, formation of localities linked to music, activism and ethnicity. The methodology contemplates ethnography in places of entertainment and debates organized by these actors and points to associations and interactive communication forms between migrants and Brazilians in which music, entertainment, consumption and socialities play a unifying role in a network of diverse flows, not dissociated from political nature activities.