Trabalho e lazer de músicos de rua em cidades turísticas: migrantes que vivem dessa arte em Barcelona e no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona present the art in the streets as a striking feature of their culture. Considering the importance of this theme for cultural tourism, the general purpose of this article is to understand the social practice of musicians playing on the streets of these tourist cities, verifying how leisure and work relations are constituted, considering that most subjects are migrants. In addition to the bibliographic research, an ethnographic investigation was carried out involving observation and 23 interviews. The analysis of the collected information followed the ethnographic assumptions, seeking to recognize the cultural and personal meanings of this practice for the subjects studied. The results evidenced that the street music is considered by its practitioners mainly as work, especially in Barcelona. Tensions have been identified in the occupation of the public space, and there are transgressions that go unnoticed to the public. As an expression of subjects and society, the arts raise all sorts of utopias and instigate new readings of the contemporary urban context.