Músicos de rua e a turistificação das cidades: um jogo tático para viver da arte na ocupação do espaço público no Rio de Janeiro e em Barcelona

Abstract

This article is the result of an ethnographic research on the social practice of street musicians in two cosmopolitan and tourist cities: Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona. His aim is to understand their "arts of doing" (De Certeau, 2014) of street musicians, glimpsing tactical possibilities of survival and possible resistances of these artists against the current social order. Field research has shown that street musicians, by appropriating public spaces, promote an economic exchange relationship and walk in the interstices between the legal and the transgressive, between the sensible and the profitable. The dimension achieved by this social practice goes beyond the simple possibility of sustaining and look forward to the dream of personal fulfillment, which is achieved in their freedom of artistic expression.