Recepção na cultura digital: o caso da música desmaterializada

Abstract

This research achieves a study of reception of the dematerialized music, based on Cultural Studies, in the environment of the digital culture and the late modernity. It understands the dematerialized music as the music which migrates from physical supports (LP, CD, K7, DVD) to the virtual environment. It applies a form envolving 76 listeners in order to comprehend how they deal with such music, from the point of view of the technologies used by them and the habits and perceptions developed in their reception. It presents the cultural industry as a condition of the rising of the materialized music, from which it is dematerialized. It lists the main reception theories. It problematizes the digital culture in its potentialities and contradictions. It discusses the download culture. It raises reflections about the crisis of the phonographic industry and the dematerialization of the music at the late modernity scenario.