Los usos culturales de la casa

Prácticas de escucha domésticas en jóvenes de clases medias y populares en Argentina

Abstract

The paper explores the relationships between musical consumption and home among middle and popular urban classes in Argentina, from an ecological perspective, attentive to the environments in which these cultural practices unfold. The analysis is based on the house as a complex space of cultural consumption and investigates different music fans' stories. From this perspective, their musical listening practices are described, considering the housing conditions in which they are conceived and modulated and the moments in the life cycle of those people who engage in them. This research has allowed to capture instances of musical socialization in which various personal strategies regarding music listening at home are presented and varying degrees of attention to the sounds of the house are managed. Thus, the exploration aims to characterize some of the effects of music on people’s daily lives, as well as to present a qualitative analysis of «musical consumption», recovering the practices, logics and contexts in which it emerges and takes on meaning. As a result, the dynamics of individuation and the domestic interdependence frameworks that are shaped with the uses of music in various socio-spatial contexts are characterized.